Surveillance
Outcome
Detection: More effective national surveillance systems.
Goal
A more effective national surveillance system based on scientifically sound sampling tools and survey methodologies.
Indicators of success
Economic:
Deployment of new monitoring applications to enhance scientific defensibility of market access for stored grains.
Science:
Surveillance tools developed and peer reviewed through scientific publication and invitations to present at key meetings, conferences and workshops.
Policy:
New surveillance tools and procedures are used by end-users to support market access outcomes.
Capacity/Collaboration:
Tools and standardised procedures are delivered to end-users through training.
Impact/Adoption:
New tools (statistical tools, automated traps, Personalised Digital Assistants) are used by end-users to enhance existing surveillance processes.
Surveillance Research Projects
| Title | Leader |
| CRC30009: Grains Surveillance Strategy | Dr Sharyn Taylor |
This project improved the preparedness of Australia's grain industry for incursions of Emergency Plant Pests (EPPs) by developing a national surveillance plan to support market access and provide more | |
| CRC30014: PDA-Assisted Surveillance (phase one) | Mr Robert Emery |
There are increasing international concerns about food quality and safety. Import requirements are becoming more demanding and exporters including Australia now need not only to declare they are more | |
| CRC30015: Hyperspectral Pathogen Detection | Ms Alison Mackie |
The project will provide improved surveillance tools for rapid, widespread detection of plant pathogens in crops and native vegetation by producing a library of unique spectral signatures that more | |
| CRC30022: Female Lures: Fruit Fly Trapping | Dr Katina Lindhout |
This project developed female fruit fly lures to improve pest surveillance technology. These will aid in the detection and control of fruit fly species not attracted to the currently deployed more | |
| CRC30023: Smart Trap Scoping Study | Dr Louise Morin |
Biosecurity insect trapping programs in Australia use low-cost or disposable units which are inspected on a weekly or fortnightly basis, and re-lured or replaced monthly or quarterly. Inspectors more | |
| CRC30032: Flying Spore Traps | Felipe Gonzalez |
This project was a scoping study to determine the potential of using an unmanned aerial vehicle, fitted with a spore trap, to detect and monitor spores of plant pathogens. The aim was to develop a more | |
| CRC30039: Fruit Fly Area Freedom | Dr Francis De Lima |
This project developed a dynamic, strategic trapping system which provides a similar or higher level of confidence as current static, passive grid systems in areas free from Queensland and more | |
| CRC30062: AIMS | Mr Robert Emery |
The aim of this project is to develop a rapid and customised (for Australia) internet web crawler which will detect organisations who would intend to market via the internet, regulated organisms more | |
| CRC30064: Resistance management of stored grain insects in the southern region | Dr Joanne Holloway |
Resistance in grain storage insects to chemical treatments continues to be a problem throughout the southern region. Regional surveys have detected new sites of strong phosphine resistance, with more | |
| CRC30065: Resistance monitoring and management of stored grain insects in the northern region | Dr Manoj Nayak |
A range of grain storage pests including beetles, psocids, moths and mites habitually threaten the food safety, market access, trade and the overall profitability and sustainability more | |
| CRC30086: Stored Grains Sampling Strategies | Dr Grant Hamilton |
This project developed flexible and statistically robust systems to calibrate and improve sampling strategies where required for the detection of post-harvest grain storage pests, and for more | |
| CRC30133: Urban surveillance | |
There are two important reasons why pests including Emergency Plant Pests (EPPs) can become established in urban areas and spread to nearby horticultural or agricultural areas. First, urban more | |
