Phenonet: wireless sensors in agriculture

The High Resolution Plant Phenomics Centre is using CSIRO-developed smart sensor nodes to record microclimate and plant data in the field in an effort to select new plant varieties suited to difficult growing conditions.

Research into wine supply networks

CSIRO is applying cutting-edge mathematics to all aspects of wine supply networks to improve efficiency and deliver higher quality wines to consumers. CSIRO is applying cutting-edge mathematics to all aspects of wine supply networks to improve efficiency and deliver higher quality wines to consumers.

Wearable instrument shirt: tambourine

This video shows scientists demonstrating the wearable instrument shirt playing as a simple moderately paced tambourine rhythm with occasional accents that simulate a tambourine being shaken as well as tapped for accent. (0:21)

Wearable instrument shirt: guiro

An video demonstrating the wearable instrument shirt playing a simple moderately paced rhythm with occasional accents that simulate a guiro being stroked slowly upward and struck downward quickly. (0:11)

Creating a wireless world

CSIRO is working on enabling technologies for future mobile and wireless communications networks and developing next generation imaging and sensing systems. CSIRO is developing improved communications systems and sensors for innovative medical and industrial applications.

CSIRO in global push to develop the Web

CSIRO hosts the Australian World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Office, developing common protocols promoting the evolution of the Web and ensuring its interoperability.

VegTrack: natural resource management database

VegTrack provides users with critical natural resource management information to monitor and assess their activities.

Mrs Vanessa Chewings: developing information systems for desert Australia

Research contributing to improved information systems for desert Australia in areas of tourism, sustainable livelihoods and biodiversity.

Trust can be portable

CSIRO has developed the world's first portable trusted computing platform that enables users to do business across the Internet from any computer with confidence.

Dr Tom Harwood: Spatial modelling for biodiversity conservation

Dr Tom Harwood works in the Macroecological Modelling Team, developing novel approaches to the analysis of national and international scale grid based biodiversity and climate change data.

Maths puts car rentals on the road to success

CSIRO mathematicians helped THL Rentals optimise their reservation system to give customers the right vehicle, when and where they want it.

Text analysis tools to find what you’re looking for

CSIRO is developing analysis technologies that work out the meaning within the written word.

Science of human behaviour informs tax system review

How can ‘doing your tax’ be made simpler? Science has some answers.

Improving social welfare services with powerful data analysis

CSIRO is developing sophisticated technologies to help the Department of Human Services (DHS) understand and respond to unexpected trends in demand for social worker services.

Sustainable consumption in urban developments

CSIRO researchers are modelling the links between human behaviour, urban developments and carbon emissions.

Superconducting devices and systems

CSIRO has one of the world’s biggest groups of superconductivity scientists working on detectors for applications in geophysics, physical security, food safety and oceanography and in the frontier science of quantum engineering.

Starbug: CSIRO's award-winning robotic submarine

Starbug is an inexpensive, miniature autonomous underwater vehicle ideal for data collection and ecosystem surveys.

Statistical bioinformatics for agribusiness

Using statistics, mathematics and informatics to help understand biological traits that are important to agribusiness.

Sustainable ocean ecosystems and living resources

The Wealth from Oceans Flagship is delivering science and technology to help sustain life in Australia's ocean realm.

Understanding the full impact of social service delivery

CSIRO and the Department of Human Services (DHS) are working together to gain a more complete understanding of the hard-to-measure impacts of human services.

Smart vision system identifies expressions and analyses behaviour

CSIRO is developing self-learning computer vision technology to aid in the diagnosis of medical conditions and to make telecollaboration more natural.

Smart systems for safer vehicle management

CSIRO is developing systems for management of vehicles in industrial situations, which offer improved efficiencies in fleet operation, and safer operating conditions for drivers.

Harvest forecasting solution for Simplot’s pea production

Dr Andrew Higgins, in collaboration with a large food processing factory in Tasmania, Simplot, developed and implemented a database application and model that dramatically improves the factory's ability to plan optimal harvest and transport times.

Dr Simon Dunstall: creating decision-harmony in supply networks

Dr Simon Dunstall has a background in engineering and mathematics. He works on planning and operations management in supply networks.

Dr Shuang Liu: investigating the interface between ecological and economic systems

Dr Shuang Liu is developing ecological-economic models to investigate the full impact of invasive species to assist in delivering effective environmental decision making.