Tasking satellites over remote location — from an office in Australia
How Magnium Australia uses EARTHEYE’s self-service tasking platform to access flexible, multi-sensor Earth observation across thousands of kilometres — paying only for what they task.
- CRITICAL MINERALS
- HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING
- MULTISPECTRAL
- SAR-READY
- REMOTE LOCATION
- PAY-AS-YOU-TASK
~5m
Hyperspectral resolution over mine sites
3+
Sensor types in a single workflow
US$5k
Minimum annual credit to get started
1
Unified platform across all operators
Magnium Australia
Critical Metals & Green Manufacturing.
Industry
Critical Minerals — Magnesium
HQ
Collie, Western Australia
Operations
Remote Location (remotely monitored)
Platform
EARTHEYE by Eartheye Space
The Challenge
Monitoring remote mine sites — without setting foot on them
Magnium Australia is constructing the world’s first decarbonised magnesium metal plant, using CSIRO-developed carbothermic technology to produce zero-carbon magnesium ingots of >99.8% purity. As the cornerstone of a green critical metals cluster, the company holds significant geological reserves of magnesium ore — a mineral listed as critical by the US, UK, EU, and Australian governments — and requires ongoing remote intelligence over mine sites located in remote location.
Geographic distance
Mine sites in remote location needed to be monitored remotely from offices in Western Australia — making traditional fieldwork impractical and costly.
Multi-sensor complexity
Different exploration use cases — from mineral mapping to environmental oversight — require different sensor types, each traditionally managed through separate operators and workflows.
Cost flexibility
As an early-growth company scaling operations, Magnium needed a procurement model that matched their project pace — not large upfront satellite contracts with inflexible commitments.
87%
of global magnesium produced in China
Over 87% of global magnesium is produced in China via carbon-intensive processes. Magnium is working to change this — and needs precise geological intelligence to do so.
The Solution
A single platform. Multiple sensors. Pay as you task.
Magnium Australia adopted the EARTHEYE self-service tasking platform by Eartheye Space, giving their team the ability to task multiple satellite sensor types — including multispectral and hyperspectral — through a single, consistent workflow, regardless of the underlying satellite operator.
We joined Eartheye Space’s self-service tasking platform because it gives us the flexibility to pay as we task different sensors, such as multispectral and hyperspectral and others in the future, such as SAR, using the same workflow regardless of the satellite operators.
Clayton Cross · Chief Operating Officer, Magnium Australia
The Outcome
Strategic Earth observation — on their terms
With EARTHEYE, Magnium Australia gained a capability that matches the pace and flexibility of their exploration and monitoring work — without the overhead of managing multiple vendor relationships or being locked into a single satellite constellation.
ABOUT THE PLATFORM
EARTHEYE By Eartheye Space
Earth observation, made uber easy
Eartheye Space makes Earth observation accessible to organisations of any size through EARTHEYE — a self-service tasking platform that simplifies satellite scheduling across multiple operators and sensor types. There is no single-operator lock-in, no separate workflows per sensor, and no minimum project size beyond an annual US$5,000 credit.
- Pay as you task — draw from your annual credit as and when you need imagery, across any supported sensor.
- Available to any size organisation — whether you are a startup or an established mining enterprise, EARTHEYE scales to your needs.
- Multiple sensors, one workflow — multispectral, hyperspectral, SAR and more, unified under a single tasking interface.
- Self-service, no lock-in — task from anywhere in the world, with full flexibility to change sensors and operators as use cases evolve.
Hyperspectral
Detailed mineral spectral mapping at ~5m resolution. Identifies alteration zones and ore assemblages.
Active — Magnium
Multispectral
Land cover, vegetation health, and environmental change monitoring across large areas.
Active — Magnium
SAR
All-weather, day/night radar imaging. Ideal for surface deformation and subsidence monitoring.
Coming soon
Future Sensors
New sensor types onboarded continuously. Same EARTHEYE workflow — no retraining needed.
Expandable
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