National Digital Twin
for Australian Agriculture
The National Digital Twin for Australian Agriculture is a flagship initiative of the Australasian Space Innovation Institute (ASII). It is designed as national, shared, AI-enabled sovereign infrastructure that creates a dynamic virtual replica of Australia’s agricultural, forestry and fisheries systems. By providing a consistent, trusted digital representation of these systems, the Digital Twin establishes a foundation for coordinated decision-making and innovation at national scale.
Australia's primary industries are observed and modelled in more detail than ever, yet much of the information collected through Earth Observation and other sources never reaches the decisions it could inform. The obstacles are not only technological but also economic, human and structural: fragmented datasets, research delivered as isolated projects, effort duplicated across sectors and jurisdictions, and slow translation into practice, all compounded by climate volatility, water scarcity and stalling productivity.
The National Digital Twin for Australian Agriculture, an ASII program, is not another tool for growers. It is independent, neutral and shared national infrastructure that changes how research is done and used, so that work done for one commodity or region benefits others, duplication falls, and each new project is faster, cheaper and more reliable than the last. Its role is indirect, strengthening those across the agricultural ecosystem, from the farm gate to policy, who already turn information into action.
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