cerdi agriculture research

Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation

Federation University AustraliaCeRDI ResearchAgricultureAugust 2016

Centre for eResearch and

Digital Innovation

CeRDI -

www.cerdi.edu.au~ 30 staff: multidisciplinary mix of researchers, technical, support and administration

Unaligned to Faculties - reports to DVCR

http://www.cerdi.edu.au/

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CeRDI capability: eResearch

National and FedUni research priorities

CeRDI Government, industry and community needs

Research expertise

Technological expertise

Real world applications

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CeRDI

Groundwater: Challenges and Strategies - 41st IAH International Congress, Marrakech, September 15-19, 2014

A variety of applications:groundwater , soils, agriculture, biodiversity, fire, history, sports, municipal, etc.

Allows integration of cross-disciplinary data sets

spatial.federation.edu.au

CeRDI capability: spatial data portals

CeRDI capability: example projects

www.vvg.org.au

Broadband innovation grant 2011 - 2013 Federates all Victorian groundwater data 5 bore databases, spatial layers, EPA data Predictions on the fly User selected 3D visualisations Allows data exports Decision support tool for practitioners Research-ready data sets

http://www.vvg.org.au/


Online Farm Trials – www.farmtrials.com.au

GRDC funded 2012 - 2017 All grains trials for Australia online Working with Grower Groups, government, industry Spatial filtering and selective keyword filtering Brings in climate data and soils data on-the-fly Allows data exports Decision support tool for agronomists & growers Research-ready data sets of all grain trials

http://www.farmtrials.com.au/

CeRDI capability: example projectsOnline Farm Trials – www.farmtrials.com.au

http://www.farmtrials.com.au/

CeRDI capability: example projectsCropPro diagnostic & economic tools – www.croppro.com.au

http://www.croppro.com.au/

CeRDI capability: example projectsCommodity price tools – agprice.grainandgraze3.com.au

http://agprice.grainandgraze3.com.au/


Corangamite Soil Health Knowledge Base www.ccmaknowledgebase.vic.gov.au/soilhealth

Corangamite CMA funded 2012 - 2016 Online portal that combines eLibrary of grey literature with web-GIS Over 3500 documents and 170 layers in the system (legacy data capture) Allows crowd-sourced soil test data (e.g. farm soil tests) Strongly supported by government, industry and community Allows data exports, screen capture as pdf, saved workspace links Decision support tool for farmers, agronomists, catchment managers, Landcare Research-ready data sets of soil and related information

http://www.ccmaknowledgebase.vic.gov.au/soilhealth

CeRDI capability: example projectsCorangamite Soil Health Knowledge Base

CeRDI capability: current projectsSouthern Farming Systems – Soil moisture probes

CeRDI capability: current projectsDepartment of Agriculture/CSIRO – Field Sense project

CeRDI capability in eResearch?

Collaborate with our research, industry and community partners:

To take advantage of the eResearch tools to:

Interoperably integrate data (open data, research data, big data,

sensor data, legacy data, crowdsourced data… any data)

Answer the frequently asked data/information questions

Dynamically generate conceptual and predictive models

Make new discoveries and avoid repeating past research

Measure the impacts on decision making and facilitate practice

change

Third party e.g. ABARE, ABS, BOM, CSIRO, EPAs, Unis, ………State base mapping, etc. Water agencies, research organisations, industry, individuals, etc.

End users, e.g. Browser, mobile application, desktop application, groundwater model, etc. Used by: researcher, community group, farmer, environmentalist, media outlet, agribusiness, etc.

Output as: web services (W3C, OGC

compliant)

Input as: Data, map layers, grids, text

and imagery in native format (or web services)

Citizen science

Landcare, environmental and community groups landholders, farmers, individuals tourists, visitors schools, TAFE, University students clubs, volunteers

GIS

SQL

Sensors

Images

Documents

Organisational data

Sounds

CeRDI capability: interoperability

CeRDI capability: example systems architecture

Further informationAnnual reports

www.cerdi.edu.au/cb_pages/annual_reports.php

Websiteshttp://spatial.federation.edu.au and www.cerdi.edu.au

Short documentary films

NRM Planning www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQETGvo_G8w

Online Farm Trials www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr6pIYRqrb0

Visualising Victoria’s Groundwater

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w94pW1Jdic

Impact research publication

http://jh.iwaponline.com/content/early/2015/10/24/hydro.2015.169

http://www.cerdi.edu.au/cb_pages/annual_reports.php



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