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Virtual DemoDAIRY

Virtual DemoDAIRY has been developed as part of a the Victorian Climate Change Adaptation Program (VCCAP) visualisation project aimed at testing the potential of landscape and 3D realistic visualisation to improve the communicability of data, at the regional and local scale, to local and regional stakeholders. The Virtual DemoDairy application focused on communicating some information on the long term effects of climate change, in the south-western region of Victoria and making it accessible to the Demo Dairy managers and stakeholders. This visual approach aims at converting complex and abstract scientific information relative to climate change into a more understandable format.

DemoDAIRY is a key knowledge point for dairy farmers in south-west Victoria. We therefore selected the site to demonstrate and evaluate the value of innovative visualisation products for improving the communication of climate change information to local farming communities.

DemoDAIRY Co-operative Ltd. is a not-for-profit research demonstration dairy farm located near Terang, Victoria. It is an experimental dairy farm having more than 300 members from the south west region of Victoria. It provides opportunity on dairy focused research, applied demonstration and educational activities to members. It works according farmer's needs and priorities with industry to plan a better and sustainable future.

A video showing a birds eye view of the DemoDAIRY farm

The animation shows a birds eye view of virtually created farm paddocks, fences, cows, buildings and vegetation around and within the DemoDAIRY farm (based on the current conditions).


This silent low bandwidth DemoDAIRY video clip runs for 48 seconds and is 1.7 MB in size, this might take some time to automatically download if you're using a slow internet connection. We strongly recommend watching the high quality version of the clip, and to view this you need to click on the 'HD' button that appears in the navigation controls for the player. This high quality version of the clip is 5.3 MB.

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A selection of photo-realistic images

The three photo-realistic images below represent different viewpoints of the Virtual DemoDAIRY farm at ground level. The aim of these images is to allow people to relate and better engage with existing and proposed changes in the farm precinct.

A virtual demo dairy landscape showing grazing cows in a paddock
A virtual demo dairy landscape showing grazing
cows in a paddock		A Virtual DemoDAIRY landscape showing an effluent pond with farm buildings
A Virtual DemoDAIRY landscape showing an effluent
pond with farm buildings
A Virtual DemoDAIRY landscape showing maturing wheat
A Virtual DemoDAIRY landscape showing maturing wheat

A video showing a high emission future climate change scenario

The Virtual DemoDAIRY project contains various visualisation products that illustrate future climate change scenario in that region. The video is an example of projected variations in temperatures and rainfall displayed within the digital globe interactive application - Google Earth. The data shows mean temperature variation for the whole of Victoria from a baseline year 2000 to year 2050. This interface allows data to be more easily accessed and viewed than when presented in written report or standard data tables. The Google Earth interface helps user contextualise data within their own catchment or region and allows them to zoom in to their farm. The speed at which data is displayed can be varied at the user's leisure. Zooming in to the farm scale, clickable points containing a description of average temperature and rainfall data comparing years1970-2000 and the year 2070 can be accessed.


This silent low bandwidth video clip runs for 48 seconds and is 1.7 MB in size, this might take some time to automatically download if you're using a slow internet connection. We strongly recommend watching the high quality version of the clip, and to view this you need to click on the 'HD' button that appears in the navigation controls for the player. This high quality version of the clip is 5.6 MB.

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Communicating climate change

To help improve the communicability of climate change related information to local farming communities and other stakeholders, we have investigated the use of a Web 2.0 approach for communicating climate change adaptation options. Specifically we have developed a number of web enabled visualisation products including YouTube videos and Google Earth Digital globe photo-realistic visualisations for illustrating present and potential future farming systems. Our approach has made use of a combination of (1) photo-realistic visualisation of the present and future farm environments, presented as YouTube videos and interactive panoramas, (2) three-dimensional objects of farm buildings, fences and vegetation, and (3) web pages, containing photos, maps and tabular data relative to present and future climatic conditions and modelled impact at the farm scale. The produced visualisations and information have been brought together in the Google Earth digital globe environment and made available online to end users (as downloadable kml files).


This silent low bandwidth video clip runs for 2 minutes and 16 seconds and is 4.5 MB in size, this might take some time to automatically download if you're using a slow internet connection. We strongly recommend watching the high quality version of the clip, and to view this you need to click on the 'HD' button that appears in the navigation controls for the player. This high quality version of the clip is 11.9 MB.

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Explore yourself

Following are the original .KML/KMZ files (to be used exclusively with Google Earth) from which the above videos were generated. You can download these files to your local computer for viewing and interacting.

For viewing this files you must have Google Earth installed on your computer. You can download a free copy of Google Earth.


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Contact

For more information on Virtual DemoDAIRY contact Dr. Jean-Philippe Aurambout on jeanphilippe.aurambout@dpi.vic.gov.au or Mr Falak Sheth on falak.sheth@dpi.vic.gov.au.

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