Video

A collection of videos from our archives.

Keeping wool in shape (1983)

Australia may no longer "ride on the sheep's back" but wool is still one of our major industries.

Image processing of road surface image produced by Road Crack.

Automated pavement crack detection and classification (1994)

Automated pavement crack detection and classification

Scrimber (1985)

A video, without commentary, of the pilot-scale plant which produces 'scrimber' - a reconstituted timber product, for structural use, developed […]

Cow suffering from Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia

Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (1981)

This film shows cattle suffering from Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia.

Sci-five: finalists in the BHP Science Prize (1984)

Sci-Five is a film about five very different young Australians who share an absorbing curiosity about the world. Each of the five has been a finalist in the BHP Science Prize and their projects provide a focus around which we explore their lives in more detail.

CSIRO Medals 2003 – Lifetime Achievement – Dr Michael Freer

Mike Freer (CSIRO Plant Industry). For his pioneering work in grazing systems science in Australia and its application to help […]

Wave-forms displayed on computer screen.

CSIRO Medals 2007 – Chairman’s Medal – The Gigabit Wireless Team

Ian Davis and the Gigabit Wireless Team (CSIRO ICT Centre). For their outstanding research and development of the world’s fastest and most spectrally efficient 6 gigabit per second wireless millimetre-wave communications link.

Graphic of Dr Graeme Pearman with CSIRO Medal.

CSIRO Medals 1988 – Dr Graeme Pearman

Graeme Pearman (CSIRO Atmospheric Research). For his work in global atmospheric chemistry and the Greenhouse Effect.

A man setaed at a 1960's computer terminal.

Classifying by computer (1966)

Scientists have always wanted to classify things, to divide them up into meaningful groups. We all do this every day, when we speak about human races, or give names to the plants we grow in our gardens. But to do this efficiently needs years of experience, years of working with the things we want to classify.

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