Posts tagged NCRIS
Offshore Fibre Sensing Infrastructure for Geohazards, Energy Transition, and Multidomain Marine Research

This project establishes Australia’s first national offshore fibre‑sensing capability, enabling real‑time monitoring of geohazards, CCS and hydrogen storage, subsea infrastructure, and marine environmental processes — all through existing submarine cables.

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Seeds of Science: Establishing a Prototype Repository for Australian Primary Observable Datasets (PODs)

Seeds of Science is creating a national PODs repository that safeguards raw geochemical data, strengthens FAIR and Open Science practices, and links samples, instruments, and publications through a transparent chain of custody.

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From Fireball Cameras to Universal Platforms

Australia's vast remote landscapes pose identical challenges for researchers studying everything from geology to wildfires to wildlife. This project aims to develop the preliminary design of a Universal Remote Platform: a standardised, modular infrastructure that supports diverse scientific instruments while addressing common operational challenges.

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EarthDrone: National Drone Infrastructure for the Earth

EarthDrone is a national drone infrastructure project that enables the remote deployment of lightweight fluxgate magnetometers for geomagnetic depth sounding (GDS). Designed for mineral exploration in remote or culturally sensitive areas, it offers a scalable, low-cost solution for mapping subsurface structures using drone swarms and long-period magnetic sensing.

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Modernising Earth Science Data for High Performance Computing

This project, supported by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), aims to future-proof Australia’s valuable geophysical datasets by transforming them into formats compatible with high-performance computing (HPC).

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