Abstract
Abstract. The Victorian Resources Online (VRO) website (http://www.dpi.vic.gov.au/vro) is the principal means for accessing landscapebased information in Victoria. In this paper we introduce a range of online landscape visualisations that have been developed to enhance existing static web content around the nature and distribution of Victoria's landforms and soils as well as associated processes. Flash is used to develop online visualisations that include interactive landscape panoramas, animations of soil and landscape processes and videos of experts explaining features in the field as well as landscape "flyovers". The use of interactive visualisations adds rich information multimedia content to otherwise static pages and offers the potential to improve user's appreciation and understanding of soil and landscapes. Visualisation is becoming a key component of knowledge management activities associated with VRO – proving useful for both "knowledge capture" (from subject matter specialists) and "knowledge transfer" to a diverse user base. A range of useful visualisation products have been made available online, with varying degrees of interactivity and suited to a variety of users. The use of video files, animation and interactive visualisations is adding rich information content to otherwise static web pages. These information products offer new possibilities to enhance learning of landscapes and the effectiveness of these will be tested as the next phase of development.
Highlights
1.1 Research AimVisualisation provides a powerful means for communicating past, present, and future landscapes to a broad range of users
In this paper we introduce a range of online landscape visualisations to support knowledge management activities and enhance existing static web content around the nature and distribution of Victoria’s landforms and soils as well as associated processes
Presentation of landscape based information on the Victorian Resources Online (VRO) website is being enhanced with the incorporation of visualisation products to support standard web content, i.e. text and graphics
Summary
Visualisation provides a powerful means for communicating past, present, and future landscapes to a broad range of users. There are a growing number of software tools available to create geographical visualisation (GeoViz) products. These broadly include: standard geographical information systems (GIS); open source format languages such as X3D; information models such as CityGML; digital globe packages such as Google Earth and NASA’s Worldwind; multi-media and 3D animation software such as Flash and 3D Studio Max; virtual world platforms such as SecondLife, as well as computer gaming engines such as Unity and Unreal. Visual presentation has been identified as an effective means of communicating landscape-related information, due to the increasing ease with which computer visualisation techniques can utilise spatial data. According to Guru and Nah (2001), the literature provides strong support to the notion that media richness, focused attention, interactivity, playfulness and flow contribute towards effective learning. Sheppard and Cizek (2009) conclude that virtual globes offer the benefits of accessibility, interactivity, and engagement in landscape visualisation, together with the promise of accelerated learning
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