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New version of Spark to be used nation-wide to model and predict bushfires

Australia will develop a nationally consistent bushfire modelling and prediction capability under an agreement announced today between CSIRO’s Data61 and AFAC, the National Council for Fire and Emergency Services. The partnership involves the development of Spark Operational, a cutting-edge bushfire simulation tool based on Data61’s Spark fire prediction platform. Fire and emergency service agencies across the...

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NSW Digital Twin to inform emergency responders this bushfire season

Over 2,400 homes destroyed, roughly $1 billion in infrastructure damage, 5.4 million hectares burned and the loss of 26 lives – the Black Summer bushfires in NSW were one of the worst disasters the state had ever experienced. The NSW Independent Bushfire Enquiry identified the loss of connectivity as a reoccurring issue throughout the season,...

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Q&A with the team behind the award-winning PaintCloud

The pandemic has reinforced the critical need for businesses to enable their employees to work efficiently outside of the conventional office. While the threat of COVID-19 has abated in Australia, restrictions on gatherings and interstate travel remain, challenges businesses nation-wide must overcome to resume near, or new, normal operations. A decade’s worth of digital transformation...

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Explore CSIRO’s Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder with their digital twin

By applying state-of-the-art computer graphics, simulation, virtual reality and augmented reality, researchers from CSIRO’s Data61 in collaboration with CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS), CSIRO’s Information Management and Technology (IM&T) and UNSW’s Expanded Perception and Interaction Centre (EPICentre) have designed a digital twin of one of Australia’s largest radio telescopes.

How data science is helping astronauts prospect for lunar ice

The moon will once again play a crucial role in the space race, but this time as the gatekeeper to the solar system, acting as a link in the planetary supply chain. Ice deposits found in shadowed craters near the poles can act as resource wells for visiting astronauts, providing not only drinking water for humans and crops, but the key component needed to create rocket fuel. By manufacturing propellant...

New algorithms help data scientists connect data points from multiple sources to solve high-risk problems

Fraud and cybercrime are highly complex problems that often require immense amounts of connected and extraordinarily dense data to be organised and interpreted. One of the challenges data scientists face when dealing with connected data is how to understand relationships between entities, as opposed to looking at data in silos, to provide a much deeper understanding of the problem. Open source graph...

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How virtual reality and high-performance scientific computing are helping scientists understand how COVID-19 behaves

On Thursday February 20th, Dr Michael Kuiper stepped into cryo-EM 2019-nCoV spike protein structure of COVID-19. The virus had infiltrated a protein within its host, utilising its uniquely virulent composition to take over the individual’s biological processes, transforming a once healthy cell into a mass of viral particles. “See this? This model shows the same lysine and tyrosine residues as the SARS...

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NSW Digital Twin launches

Launched late last month, the NSW Spatial Digital Twin will improve the state’s infrastructure, services, and economy. The Digital Twin will enable planners, policymakers and developers to make more informed decisions and reduce costs by creating new efficiencies, explained the Minister for Customer Service NSW, Victor Dominello, at the Sydney-held event. “With this technology, it changes everything,”...

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Making Machine Learning User Friendly

Nhung Nguyen, UX Designer at CSIRO’s Data61, on making graph machine learning a user-friendly experience. As a User Experience designer at CSIRO’s Data61, I analyse all aspects of a user’s interaction with a company, its services, its product, and online platform. What drives us is designing meaningful products that are intuitive, meet user needs, and...

Tackling Drought with Data Visualisation

Australia’s drought has become a key issue, in 2018. A long stretch of dry weather during Australia’s April to October growing season is putting pressure on farmers and communities across the country. Part of addressing this challenge involves gathering and interpreting disparate pieces of data to inform decisions. Recently, at Old Parliament House in Canberra...