A – New Products, Processes and Systems
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Products
| AAV (Ageless Aerospace Vehicle) – can monitor itself and its environment, learn and adapt, and make and implement decisions |
| Absolute Salinity Standard – a new international thermodynamic description of seawater, cast in terms of a new salinity which gives an accurate measure of the heat content of seawater for inclusion in ocean models and climate projections; initiated by the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research – See Science adopts a new definition of seawater, 2009 (Media Release) |
| ACBM (Autonomous Conveying/Bolting Module) – for roofs in coal mines |
| AccuRate – software, improved version of NatHERS – See also Great games, great science, 2000 (Media Release) |
| Across the fenceline – web-linked technology which provides real-time information on drainage under different land management practices |
| ADSAT – software/tool for assessment of testing tools for object-oriented software |
| Advise – software/tool for traffic control |
| Aerogard – insect repellant |
| Agitator – software to analyse mixing impellor performance and mixing tank flow field |
| Air Cargo Scanner – instrument that detects quickly and precisely hidden explosives and illicit drugs in containers |
| AirSAR (Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar) – software for mining industry – See Scientists see through sand, 1997 (Media Release) |
| Airtrak – air quality sensor which diagnoses causes of ozone build-up (made by Mineral Control Instrumentation Ltd) – See The Integrated Empirical Rate Model (CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research) and Airtrak (1989) |
| ALFA (Arecibo L-band Feed Array) – camera using radio waves instead of light to see further out into space – See CSIRO boosts the power of the world’s biggest telescope (Achievement) |
| Align 3D – software, for planning of rail & road routes (marketed by Quantm Ltd) – See Visions for the future – Efficient road design (1994) |
| Alpha – software for X-ray fluorescence spectrometry |
| Alpha+ – design-generation software package for planting trials |
| AMBRI biosensor – instrument for the rapid detection of minute concentrations of substances in the blood (owned by Pacific Dunlop) – See Australian scientists create a nanomachine, 1997 (Media Release) and Information Intensive Industries (CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics) |
| AM-cover – a colourless, odourless gas which will replace sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) in magnesium melting operations – See Slashing greenhouse emissions from magnesium production (Solution) |
| AM-SC1™ – lightweight magnesium alloy sold by Advanced Magnesium Technologies (AMT) – See Cast Metals – Light Years Ahead, 2004 (CSIRO SOLVE) |
| AMZ (Australian Milking Zebu) – a breed of tick-resistant, heat-tolerant dairy cattle produced by CSIRO; animals and semen have been exported and the breed is now being used in dairy cattle improvement programs |
| Annodex™ – an interactive plugin for browsing through webs of video |
| Antenna feed system for the AUSSAT-B (Optus B) satellite – helped revolutionise the satellite industry, worth about US$10 billion annually world-wide. CSIRO showed that computer-based methods could be used to halve the antenna part of this industry’s cycle-time (one of the slowest parts of the overall development cycle), from 4 years to about 2 years or less. Computer code analysing antennas on-board spacecraft – developed in a three-year contract (1995-97) with Boeing Space and Communications (formerly Hughes); this was the main tool used by Boeing for about three years for design of spacecraft antennas. |
| Antennas for radio telescopes and satellite communications |
| AP-design – software to monitor energy consumption |
| Aplcrates – software that calculates spare part allowances by assembling the necessary data |
| APSIM (Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator) – software, uses climate data together with soil nitrogen and water levels to calculate potential crop performances |
| Aqualab – submersible on-site logger instrument which gathers and transmits essential data on water quality |
| Aquifem-N – software, aquifer flow model – See Dryland Salinity Management: Can simple catchment-scale models provide reliable answers? An Australian case study |
| Arcana™ wool fibre – formerly known as OPTIM™ fibre processing |
| Argyle – linseed cultivar varietal |
| ARIS – software |
| ASFF (Australian Stocks and Flows Framework) – a modeling tool that can conduct scenario planning for resource management – used in Growing the Green Collar Economy – See SEED Working Paper 23: The Dematerialisation Potential of the Australian Economy (Publication – technical) |
| ASKAP (Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder) – instrument for the full Square Kilometre Array. The arrays will be part of a new ultra-high resolution visualisation system, CSIROvision, and will extend OptIPortal technology developed by the University of California. |
| ASPDS (Airport Pavement Structural Design System) – software commercialised by the spin-off company Mincad System P/L |
| Assembly Planning – software for the design of assembly line processing |
| AT2 – a microbe, Pseudomonas AT2 which eats pesticides cleaning up contaminated soil and water – See Aussie Toxin Muncher Discovered, 1999 (Media Release) |
| Atlantic – varietal, genetically modified potato plant for the snack food industry, especially potato crisps |
| Atlantis – a marine ecosystem model used to guide fishery management and regional marine planning – See Simulations of marine ecosystems dynamics |
| ATLAS – instrument for measuring wool staple length and strength |
| Atlas of Living Australia – an online encyclopaedia of Australian biodiversity providing information, maps and images of all species of Australian plants, animals and micro-organisms; a collaboration between the CSIRO, state and national museums, departments and universities |
| Atlas PG – winter active phalaris grass varietal |
| Atomic absorption spectrometer |
| ATSR (Along-Track Scanning Radiometer) – instrument which probes each location on the Earth’s surface twice as the satellite passes overhead |
| AUDIT (Appraisal of Urban Development, Infrastructure and Transport) – computer model for planning transport and water management |
| AusBeef – software – See New tool for feed decisions (Science for tomorrow) |
| AusCane – sugar land management system model |
| AusFarm – family of six software packages – MetAccess, LambAlive, GrazFeed, GrazPlan, FarmWi$e, and Grassgro – See also Farming: decision support for farms (Overview – Research) |
| AUSLCI (Australian Life Cycle Inventory) – database which allows users to assess and compare products across a number of industries and to choose those likely to give the best environmental impact performance; developed in conjunction with the Australian Life Cycle Assessment Society, EPA Vic, PACIA, Sustainability Vic, RMIT Centre for Design and FWPRDC |
| AusPig – software, pig farming decision support system – See Better decisions bring home the bacon, 2000 (Media Release)|http://www.csiro.au/files/mediarelease/mr2000/AUSPIG.htm] |
| AusPlague – software for management of contact-spread diseases in wildlife |
| Australian II – grazing-tolerant phalaris cultivar – See New pasture grass a boost for graziers, 2000 (Media Release) |
| Australian Blood (also known as Australian Red Centre) – Citrus australasica varietal; cross between native finger lime and Rangpur lime – See New CSIRO lime varieties (Achievement) |
| Australian Outback – Citrus glauca native lime variety; sometimes called Australian Desert lime – See New CSIRO lime varieties (Achievement) |
| Australian Sunrise – finger lime/calamondin hybrid varietal (cross between a cumquat and a mandarin) – See New CSIRO lime varieties (Achievement) |
| Australian Tropical Rain Forest Trees – software/book for rainforest plant identification – See Australian Tropical Herbarium (CSIRO Plant Industry) |
| Auswool – software, predicts wool clip’s processing performance |
| AusZEH – Australia’s first Zero Emission House showcases off-the-shelf building and renewable energy-generation technologies, and new future-ready energy management systems – See also Zero Emission House (Profile – Project) |
| Automated Horadiam – a specialised fully automated mining platform that will drill, survey and load explosives from a large diameter shaft drilled through the ore-body (developed in collaboration with WA School of Mines (Curtin) and Geographe Enterprises) |
| Autotrough – automatic solar-powered watering trough that cools drinking water for stock, marketed by Monopumps Australia (Pty Ltd) |
| Aztec – cultivar, rust-resistant strain of the pasture legume Siratro – See Pastures for the north |
Processes
| Active Packaging – technology to ensure fresh produce reaches export markets in good condition – See Visions for the future – Clever plastic wrap (1994) |
| Alcoa Portland SPL Process – developed jointly by Portland Aluminium, Alcoa, Ausmelt and CSIRO; renders spent pot lining, the hazardous waste from aluminium smelters harmless and at the same time produces two commercial by-products: aluminium fluoride and ‘synthetic sand’ – See Global aluminium waste headache solved, 2002 (Media Release) |
| AMCRO – ammonium chromate panel treatment process which improves the optical properties of ‘copper black’ solar selective surfaces (manufactured by Beasley Industries Pty Ltd, Hindmarsh, South Australia) |
| Annodex™ – technology that allows metadata to be added video, making computerised archives searchable – See At last: video search that works, 2005 (Media Release) |
| Atomic absorption spectroscopy |
Systems
| AAQFS (Australian Air Quality Forecasting System) – a state-of-the-art modeling system which forecasts the following day’s air quality |
| ABSAC – Building and construction testing services |
| ACCESS (Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator) – a fully coupled system to be developed as a joint initiative of the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO, with university sector involvement to create models and modeling outcomes |
| Aida mobile browser technology – enables high quality video to be delivered to 3G mobile phones from internet web servers in a continuous stream, minimising waiting time |
| Airscan – automatically detects and tracks aircraft by capturing and identifying registration numbers at airports – See Airscan (1996) |
| Alphacron – an automated, integrated and compact turnkey system designed for the extraction and measurement of gases from mineral samples (joint venture with Patterson Instruments Pty Ltd to commercialise the system) |
| ASRIS (Australian Soil Resource Information System) – provides online access to the best available soil and land resource information in a consistent format across the nation |
| ATM (Air Traffic Management Systems) |
| ATS (Accelerated Test Shelter) – a system which can evaluate new and existing roof fastener products for corrosion performance – See Keep your roof on thanks to CSIRO, 2000 (Media Release) |
| Auscope Grid – a grid, simulator and earth model system which provides an infrastructure to find and assess additional major mineral deposits buried under the regolith in Australia by improving the image of the subsurface – See Regolith geochemistry for mineral exploration |
| Australis – an accelerator mass spectrometry system for ultra sensitive trace element and isotopic studies |
| Automated Particle Settling Cylinder Test System – software, uses real-time digital image analysis to streamline slurry sedimentation – See Cheaper, faster, precision ore analysis, 1999 (Media Release) |
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