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Research Network in Undersea Decision Superiority launches second round of funding
Academic and industry researchers came together at the University of Melbourne on February 18 for the Victorian launch event of the Research Network in Undersea Decision Superiority (RN-UDS) second round of funding.
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Research of scale: Melbourne Defence Enterprise building future capability
Research into defence technologies is helping to develop the future workforce in defence while enhancing national security.
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The University of Melbourne Defence Enterprise was showcased at the PACIFIC 2019 International Maritime Exposition in Sydney last month
Our researchers gave pitches in areas including: hydrodynamic modelling, improving the safety of helicopter landings on ships in heavy sea states, quantum sensors (including magnetometers and chemical sensors), sonar signal processing and human performance modelling and experimentation.
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Crowd power makes sense of the unfathomable
International criminals could once be confident that traditional law enforcement agencies didn’t have the resources to sift through the millions of internet pages looking for clues. Putting ‘citizen sleuths’ on the case is changing that dramatically.
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Staying the course with a light hand
The former Director-General of ASIO outlines good leadership as the nominations for the University of Melbourne's McKinnon Prize in Political Leadership open.
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Making waves on the quiet: how submarines can avoid detection
One of the Australian Defence Force’s biggest secrets involves the location of its submarine fleet. The reason is compelling. Once detected, submarines have limited strategic, offensive or defensive capabilities.
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Disappearing Arctic ice and the role of waves–ice interactions
Declines in Arctic sea ice cover and thickness have been observed continuously during the modern satellite era, but appear to have accelerated in the past decade.
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New night vision optics revolutionise infrared sensing
Light has a special relationship with information. In the form of visible light, it can create images of the world in the human brain. But visible light is just a small portion of a larger electromagnetic spectrum, and that spectrum makes astonishing applications possible.
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Case study: EpiFx and EpiDefend
The greatest public health outcome during a pandemic is achieved by rapidly controlling the spread of disease at the start of an outbreak. Achieving that overriding objective requires understanding, ahead of time, how a disease is likely to spread.
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Could robots protect us in the surf
Multi-vehicle robotics will help solve some of the problems faced by humans doing dirty and dangerous jobs