digital agriculture | data for research and decision
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Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation
Digital AgricultureA CeRDI view
A/Prof Peter DahlhausA/Prof Helen Thompson
10st February 2017
Federation University AustraliaOrigins: 1870 Ballarat School of Mines
Campuses: Ballarat, Gippsland, Wimmera, Berwick,
Brisbane, Malaysia
Faculties & Schools:
(dual sector)
• Business• Education & Arts• Health• Science & Technology• Industry Skills• Federation College
Federation University Australia
University of New England
University of Southern Queensland
Southern Cross University
Central Queensland University
University of the Sunshine Coast
Precision Agriculture FlagshipWater Landscapes Future
Collaboration: research, PhD students, facilities
Centre for eResearch and
Digital Innovation
CeRDI - www.cerdi.edu.au
~ 30 staff: multidisciplinary mix of researchers, technical, support and administration
Unaligned to Faculties - report to DVCR
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CeRDI capability: eResearch
National & FedUni research priorities
CeRDIGovernment, industry and community needs
Research expertise
Technological expertise
Real world applications
A variety of applications:agriculture, biodiversity, catchment management, citizen science, climate change, endangered species, emergency management, fire, groundwater, history, municipal information, natural resource management, regional planning, sports participation, etc.
Allows integration of cross-disciplinary data sets
spatial.federation.edu.au
CeRDI capability: spatial data portals
Depth to watertable
www.vvg.org.au
Federates around 80 groundwater data sets from 8 custodians. Some data are real-time, some are scheduled updates, some are linked data
Bore parameters
Information on over 400,000 bores accessed from the source databases
Predicted depth to watertable and groundwater quality
3d model of aquifers
204,146 Sessions
83,135 Users
488,852 Pageviews
60% Returning visitors
Primary impactSite usage has grown: • 43% industry users, • 20% government, • 11% community, • 11% water authority, • 10% research.
Analytics
Practice impact: reduced time finding data, preparing data, responding to enquiries.
Sector impact: changed data custodian’s thoughts on how to provision data.
http://jh.iwaponline.com/content/18/2/238 Journal of Hydroinformatics (open access)
“VVG technology provides an opportunity to add extra data sets without having to rebuild.”
International data interoperability standardsGroundwater Interoperability Experiment 2 (GW2IE)Soil Data Interoperability Experiment (Soil IE)
Collaborators include: CSIRO, European Commission, US Department Agriculture, World Soil Information (ISRIC), Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Landcare Research NZ, Geological Surveys of US, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, Poland, UK, etc.
data.cerdi.edu.au/soil_demo.php
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) 2015 soil data interoperability experiment. Designing, implementing and testing a soil data exchange standard.
The Research and Innovation Network for Precision Agriculture Systems
agprice.grainandgraze3.com.au
Historical commodity price metrics
www.swclimatechange.com.au
Climate change predictions (spatial), impacts and adaptation information.
probetrax.sfs.org.au
Soil moisture and temperature probes (telemetered data)Includes SMS/email alert services
www.ccmaknowledgebase.vic.gov.au/soilhealth
Soil eLibrary (grey documents, webpages, videos, etc.)Spatial mapping portal (maps, tests, profiles, etc.)
Federating soil data from SLGA & DEDJTR
http://ccma.tism.cecc.com.au/ccma_shkb/soilprop_viz.php
Community contributed soil test data
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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
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CeRDI collaborative investment opportunities in eResearch
Opportunities exist for the CBA to co-invest with our research, industry and
community partners in:
Centre of Excellence?
CRCs?