Australia From Space is out of this world

28 September 2006

UNSW is hosting a free public photo exhibition that features 80 colour images of Australia, captured by astronauts and 30 orbiting satellites over the past two decades.

Australia From Space was created and curated by Dr Stephen Young from Salem State College in the US, and the NSW Geographical Society. The breathtaking images reveal the beauty and fragility of the Australian continent.

Since 1998, Professor Young’s creative and scholarly use of remote sensing images has been displayed in galleries around the world. The images include landforms, weather patterns, atmospheric pollution, clouds, rivers, oceans and bushfires and vary in size up to three square metres.

The images reveal the capacity of remote sensing to bring a new understanding and appreciation of Australia by manipulating display elements such as colour, electromagnetic radiation, pixelation and scale.

One of the exhibition’s most telling set of images reveals the effect of global warming on Australia if sea levels were to rise 500 metres, in 100m increments. The Making of the Australian Archipelago features a series of six images that shows the Australian continent disappear and fragment into an archipelago of disparate islands.

The exhibition is open to the general public on Friday 29 and Saturday 30 September, from 9am–5pm.

For more information, visit the Australia From Space website

What: Australia from Space exhibition

When: 9am–5pm, Friday 29 and Saturday 30 September, 2006

Where: Lab 640, Sixth Floor, Biosciences Building (Map reference D-26)