#Transport and Infrastructure

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RoadCrack system

CSIRO’s RoadCrack imaging technology automates the task of surveying the nation’s roads with a capacity to detect cracks one millimetre […]

Scan of mixed cargo using the air cargo scanner

Air Cargo Scanner

CSIRO’s air cargo scanner allows rapid identification of contraband in air freight containers. Existing bulk scanning technologies use high-energy X-rays […]

Air Cargo Scanner team seated around computer display.

CSIRO Medals 2006 – Research achievement – Air Cargo Scanner

Brian Sowerby, James Tickner (CSIRO Minerals). For developing a world-first air cargo scanner for interrogating consolidated air cargo for contraband such as drugs and explosives.

George Harley seated at desk with building plans

CSIRO Medals 2004 – Lifetime Achievement – George Harley

George Harley (Corporate Property). Over the past 19 years he has led the multi-disciplinary Corporate Property team to rationalise, consolidate […]

Passenger inspecting aircraft window.

A Clear View (2001)

The maze of tiny cracks that develops in plane windows is irritating for passengers and expensive to fix. Now there’s […]

Axcess Australia Low Emission concept car on display.

CSIRO Medals 2000 – Chairman’s Medal – The Low Emission Vehicle Team

David Lamb, Howard Lovatt and colleagues (ICT Centre, CSIRO Telecommunications and Industrial Physics; Marine and Atmospheric Research; Energy Technology; Mathematical and Information Sciences; Molecular Science). For the development of complete power-trains for two low-emission car projects.

High angle view of freeway through rural landscape.

CSIRO Medals 1999 – Research achievement medal – Ian Macintyre and the RoadCrack Team

Ian McIntre, Mark Berman, Robert Oreb and colleagues (CSIRO Manufactoring Science and Technology, CSIRO Telecommunications and Industrial Physics, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences). For the development of the RoadCrack system using innovative vision technology.

RoadCrack mounted on truck.

RoadCrack (1999)

RoadCrack - an innovative vision technology that automates the task of surveying the nation’s roads with a capacity to detect cracks one millimetre wide from beneath the chassis of a moving vehicle.

Dr Robert Leicester testing wood samples

CSIRO Medals 1998 – Research achievement – Dr Robert Leicester

Robert Leicester (CSIRO Building, Construction and Engineering). For scientific contributions to knowledge of timber structural properties.