Author:CSIRDate:Sep 2009The CSIR Satellite Applications Centre is a key component of the CSIR's efforts to maximise the benefit of information, communications and space technology for industry and society. The centre at Hartebeesthoek is located some 70 km west of ...Read more
Author:CSIRDate:Dec 2007The CSIR Satellite Applications Centre is a key component of the CSIR's efforts to maximise the benefit of information, communications and space technology for industry and society. The centre at Hartebeesthoek is located some 70 km west of ...Read more
Author:CSIRDate:Mar 2008The CSIR Satellite Applications Centre is a key component of the CSIR's efforts to maximise the benefit of information, communications and space technology for industry and society. The centre at Hartebeesthoek is located some 70 km west of ...Read more
Author:CSIRDate:Dec 2008The CSIR Satellite Applications Centre is a key component of the CSIR's efforts to maximise the benefit of information, communications and space technology for industry and society. The centre at Hartebeesthoek is located some 70 km west of ...Read more
Author:Anandjiwala, RDate:Oct 2012Over the past few years, the CSIR has made a significant investment into fibres and biocomposite research and infrastructure at its Port Elizabeth campus. The Department of Science and Technology (DST) has invested
approximately R10.8 million ...Read more
Author:CSIRDate:Dec 2006South Africa has a long and proud history of aerospace innovation and development, with the CSIR being an inextricable part of this through its many years of novel aerospace research and developmentRead more
Author:CSIRDate:Jun 2009Energy is a key economic and environmental driver. South Africa, with a large endowment of coal, has an electricity production system that is highly carbon intensive. It generates two-thirds of Africa's electricity, approximately 90% of which ...Read more
Author:CSIRDate:Apr 2007Life science has become a vast research enterprise worldwide and is not regarded as a single discipline. In South Africa, the importance of the life sciences in understanding and improving human health, and in the development of sustainable ...Read more
Author:CSIRDate:Jun 2008Science contributes towards a sustainable earth. The appeal for a sustainable earth is now a well-established item on the global political agenda. One can hardly open a newspaper or turn on the television without seeing evidence of people and ...Read more
Author:CSIRDate:Aug 2006The year 2006 is celebrated as the “year of the women” in South Africa to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the women’s march to the Union Buildings on 9 August 1956. These individuals contributed a great deal to raise awareness of the ...Read more
Author:Marais, ELDate:Oct 2006The temperature coefficient of standard resistors of various types is well-known to within an acceptable uncertainty, for the purposes that these resistors are used for in most calibration laboratories. There are instances where this information ...Read more
Author:Brooks, GRDate:Apr 1977This survey of current practice relating to the disposal and recycling of waste paper was commissioned by the Committee for Solid Wastes, through the National Scientific Programmes Unit of the CSIR. It was undertaken by Louis Heyl and Associates, ...Read more
Author:Grindley, JRDate:Dec 1982This report provides historical information on Eerste River, catchment, abiotic and biotic characteristics. The Eerste River rises on Dwarsberg 60 km east of Cape Town as the head of Jonkershoek. The river catchment covers the eastern part ...Read more
Author:Simelane, Sengiphile N; Isaac, Nithin; Duma, Talent C; Chowdhury, SPDDate:Jun 2018The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria is currently implementing an energy autonomous programme aimed at creating an Energy- Autonomous Campus (EAC) by supplying energy from the three primary energy sources: ...Read more
Author:Van Heerden, Johanna MDate:05 Jun 2008In order to address national challenges and development objectives as per its mandate it has increasingly become necessary for the CSIR to focus on interdisciplinary research projects. However, due to the physical distribution of CSIR ...Read more
Author:Mcferren, GA; Roos, S; Terhorst, ALDate:2006AFIS (Advanced Fire Information System) is a joint initiative between CSIR and Eskom, the South African electricity utility. AFIS infers fire occurrences from processed remotely sensed data and triggers alarms to Eskom operators based on ...Read more
Author:Mass MediaDate:Oct 2007Earlier this month a future manufacturing workshop presented by Dr Anthon Botha and Joe Manchu of Innovation Lab Pty Ltd and Lorraine Ngwenya of the Department of Science and Technology - was held at the Innovation Hub in Pretoria. Key ...Read more
Author:Estuarine and Coastal Research Unit, ECRUDate:Apr 1981The Gamtoos has the fourth largest catchment of all the Cape rivers, with an area of 34 438 km2 which extends right up into the Great Karoo. Two large tributaries drain the eastern extremity of the Nuweveld Mountain range and the western ...Read more