Environmental Mapping & Monitoring

The Wealth from Oceans Flagship, together with its research partners, is providing Australia with a key capacity to discover, protect and realise the benefits of our ocean territories.

The ICT Centre is CSIRO's national research hub for developing innovative information and communication technologies. These technologies are applied to Australia across the breadth CSIRO’s engagement with industry and society.

CSIRO scientists with the Minerals Down Under National Research Flagship are working closely with industry and government to develop vastly improved navigation technology for remote areas.

Cells will get a dose of reality TV when image analysts at CSIRO and cell biologists at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research work together to observe their secret lives.

To celebrate National Science Week 2008 CSIRO brings together boffins from Canberra's major academic and research organisations.

CSIRO’s research in this area enables decision makers in business and industry to understand their data and to make reliable, productive and informed decisions.

CSIRO's Healthy Terrestrial Ecosystems theme brings together multi-disciplinary teams to develop new technologies and approaches to promote ecosystem function and prediction to inform biodiversity management, planning and incentives.

Wearable intelligent textiles, incorporating electronic circuitry and sensors, are well suited to become the basis of the next generation of control systems for many applications of mobile computing, allowing complete freedom of movement.

CSIRO’s understanding of the potential impacts of climate change on natural and planted forests is helping forestry and natural resource managers prepare for the future.

The Water Research Observation Network (WRON) Visualisation Centre provides an environment for the investigation and development of visualisation tools and interfaces that display information in an engaging and easily understood manner as shown in this video. (2:27)

This animation shows the migratory behaviour of the common banana prawn to fishing grounds in the Gulf of Carpentaria. (1:09)

Dr Peter Corke is CSIRO’s expert on robots and intelligent systems, helping to design devices and systems that perform tasks humans do not want to do, or are unable to do.

Meet Dr Darius Culvenor, who works across a broad range of remote sensing technologies and applications, helping to identify strategically important areas for new technology, skills and business development.

This is a presentation by Dr Sunil Sharma to the CLLAMMecology Science Briefing held in Goolwa, South Australia, on April 4 2008. Dr Sharma details habitat mapping and changing habitiat availability. (23 pages)

A presentation by Dr Qifeng Ye to the CLLAMMecology Science Briefing held in Goolwa, South Australia, on April 4 2008. Dr Ye launches the Fisheries Research Development Corporation joint project: 'Flow related fish and fisheries ecology in the Coorong, South Australia'. (21 pages)

This fact sheet describes the many ways in which termites contribute to ecosystem health in northern Australia. Termite activity affects water infiltration, nutrient cycling, biodiversity and landscape repair.

These are the abstracts for the 2008 Innovation, Services and Smart Information Use symposium, a satellite meeting of the Australian Statistical Conference (30 June - 3 July 2008) in Melbourne.