Imaging Technologies

At CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, we apply mathematics and statistics to answer important questions from medical research to environmental monitoring and industrial processing.

 

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 has developed maths-based imaging technology to measure hair on different parts of the human body.

In an ultra-modern take on a St Bernard bringing brandy to stranded skiers, tomorrow pilotless aircraft will drop water to someone ‘lost’ in the outback.

The multi-spectral imaging project is building scanners which use millimetre-waves to 'see' through smoke, dust, fog and clothing, in daylight or darkness.

Checking the contents of tablets, finding new ore bodies to mine, identifying tumours – these are just some of the applications of hyperspectral imaging. This technology has been the focus of CSIRO research which helps determine the composition of different materials and how composition varies throughout the material.

Land and vegetation monitoring is now available to users on their own properties.  This is based on more than a decade of research and experience in analysing remotely-sensed (satellite) data for monitoring land condition.

CSIRO’s Machine Vision team is expanding the capabilities of visioning hardware-software, building machines able to automatically process images in real-world conditions.

CSIRO researchers have been researching ways to use graphics processing units (GPUs) to speed up scientific computing. CSIRO researchers Dr John A Taylor and Dr Luke Domanski discuss this in this video. (2:38)

The concept of Sentinel Asia is to provide online information from Earth observation satellites in ‘near real-time’ through a network of webGIS services such as the Australian Sentinel Hotspots system. (0.31 secs)

Dr Wang is the architect and main developer of HCA-Vision, CSIRO's automated image analysis software package that rapidly and reproducibly measures functional features of neuronal cells in two-dimensional (2D) images.

The campus of The Australian National University is home to the Canberra-based staff of CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences and CSIRO ICT Centre.

CSIRO remote sensing specialists analysed Landsat satellite images to accurately map changes in the forest cover to assist land and resource managers, particularly in bushfire management. (55 pages)

The inaugural Australian Crystallisation Course will be held in Parkville, Victoria between the 8th and 12th of December 2008. This course is an intensive, hands-on practical course that combines lectures on all aspects of macromolecular crystallisation, from sample preparation to cryo-protection and harvesting of crystals.

CSIROvision reveals a level of detail usually seen only on high powered microscopes. Combining high definition video and audio with an in-built teleconferencing facility, CSIROvision allows real-time collaboration across the globe.

There are many ways that organisations in Tasmania and across Australia can work with the Tasmanian ICT Centre. Find out more in this document.