Abstract: Pasture management in the pastoral zone is crucial to long-term sustainability of woolgrowing enterprises, but the large size of properties and scarcity of labour make it difficult for pastoralists to know the condition of the pasture base across the whole property. As well, like all agricultural producers, pastoralists are under increasing scrutiny to ‘prove’ whether they are managing their natural resources well. The ability of satellite imagery to provide frequent and whole-of-property information that can be easily archived over many years means that satellites are potentially useful for pastoral management. However, to date, impediments in processing and interpreting satellite imagery have rendered it beyond the reach of most pastoralists. Gary Bastin from CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems in Alice Springs, led a team who worked with eight pastoral families in northern South Australia to devise a prototype for presenting satellite information in a useful format. Three products in particular seem to show the most potential, namely: (a) maps of cover at various times for the property (or particular paddocks) scaled between the historically lowest and highest values of cover for the area of interest; (b) maps of vegetation cover summarised as time traces of average cover across land types within paddocks; and (c) cover values showing changes in categories (such as low, medium, high) over time hence allowing woolgrowers to manage against preset cover targets.