Digital Agriculture | High Performance Soil Workshop
1. Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation
A/Prof Peter Dahlhaus
A/Prof Helen Thompson
May 2017
2. Federation University Australia
Origins: 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
3. Federation University Australia
University of New England
University of Southern Queensland
Southern Cross University
Central Queensland University
University of the Sunshine Coast
Precision Agriculture Flagship
Water Landscapes Future
Collaboration: research, PhD students, facilities
4. 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
5. x =
CeRDI capability: eResearch
National &
FedUni
research
priorities
CeRDI
Government,
industry and
community
needs
Research
expertise
Technological
expertise
Real world
applications
6. 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
12. 204,146 Sessions
83,135 Users
488,852 Pageviews
60% Returning visitors
Primary impact
Site usage has grown:
• 43% industry users,
• 20% government,
• 11% community,
• 11% water authority,
• 10% research.
Analytics
13. 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/18/2/238Journal of Hydroinformatics (open access)
“VVG technology provides an opportunity to add extra
data sets without having to rebuild.”
14. International data interoperability standards
Groundwater 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.
30. In areas with sparse
data, use federated
soil data from
CSIRO (SLGA) &
Agriculture Victoria
Public view
31. Antle, J.M., Basso, B., Conant, R.T., Godfray, H.C.J., Jones, J.W., Herrero, M., Howitt, R.E., Keating, B.A., Munoz-Carpena, R.,
Rosenzweig, C., Tittonell, P. and Wheeler, T.R. (2017 in press-a). Towards a new generation of agricultural system data, models
and knowledge products: Design and improvement. Agricultural Systems. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2016.10.002.
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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