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With the support of funding from the Land, Water & Wool program, we worked with woolgrowers in north eastern South Australia to adapt MODIS-derived images of cover into products useful for monitoring and managing vegetation at paddock and property scale. Products included maps of fractional cover scaled to the interests of individual producers, maps simplified to three classes of cover and time-trace summaries of average cover by land type for particular paddocks. We report project results and steps still required to progress this technology to a workable system that can assist property-level management of natural resources.