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Roxane Bandini-Maeder (right) at the Australian Space Awards.<\/p>\nRoxane Bandini-Maeder (right) at the Australian Space Awards.<\/p>\n
Hobart-based Earth observation company, Geoneon, and its CEO were the stars of the recent Australian Space Awards.<\/p>\n
Three awards were handed to the company and its co-founder, Roxane Bandini-Maeder, at a ceremony in Sydney this month.<\/p>\n
The contest saw 160 finalists whittled down to 28 winning individuals and organisations from right across Australia\u2019s wide-ranging space sector.<\/p>\n
Geoneon<\/a> was awarded Business of the Year \u2013 SME, while Bandini-Maeder was not only named Female Space Leader of the Year, but also received the Excellence Award, the highest individual honour of the evening.<\/p>\n \u201cWinning three Australian Space Awards is an incredible recognition for Geoneon and for the team behind the work,\u201d said Bandini-Maeder.<\/p>\n And this is not the first award the company CEO has received. Last year, Bandini-Maeder was chosen<\/a> as the 2025 Tasmania Pearcey Entrepreneur of the Year for her work on climate and disaster risk analysis.<\/p>\n What does Geoneon do?<\/p>\n Geoneon describes itself as a space-enabled technology company that applies satellite imagery, artificial intelligence and data fusion to map climate risk and vegetation.<\/p>\n Spatial Source has previously reported on some of Geoneon\u2019s work. In 2024, Geoneon produced the Greater Hobart Bushfire Exposure Index<\/a>, which was then updated<\/a> the following year.<\/p>\n The 2025 Index, produced in partnership with several Tasmanian councils, assesses exposure for approximately 112,000 buildings across the Greater Hobart area.<\/p>\n The Index combines satellite-derived vegetation maps with terrain, climate and built-environment data to estimate the fire exposure of buildings if surrounding bushland were to burn.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are proud to be building space-enabled technology from Tasmania and applying it to some of the most practical challenges facing communities, infrastructure owners and land managers,\u201d said Bandini-Maeder.<\/p>\n Earth observation\u2019s important role in society<\/p>\n Bandini-Maeder says it encouraging to see the \u201cdownstream space sector\u201d being recognised through the Australian Space Awards.<\/p>\n \u201cSpace is not only about launch, satellites and hardware \u2014 it is also about how we use satellite data and space-enabled technology to create real-world impact on the ground,\u201d Bandini-Maeder said.<\/p>\n \u201cFor us, satellite data is only powerful when it can be translated into decisions.<\/p>\n \u201cThese awards recognise not only the technology, but the role Earth observation can play in helping communities and organisations prepare earlier, plan better and build resilience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roxane Bandini-Maeder (right) at the Australian Space Awards. Hobart-based Earth observation company, Geoneon, and its CEO were the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[64,63,1703,183895,38324,37525,20265,128,4064],"class_list":["post-756871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-awards","tag-fire-risk","tag-hero","tag-remote-sensing","tag-satellite-imagery","tag-science","tag-space-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}