Virtual Agriculture
Dr.J.Meenambigai
Assistant Professor
Department of Agricultural Extension
Faculty of Agriculture
Annamalai University
Virtual World – Meaning
A virtual world may also be called a digital world. It is a computer-based online community environment that is designed and shared by individuals so that they can interact in a custom-built, simulated world. Users interact with each other in this simulated world using text-based, two-dimensional or three-dimensional graphical models called avatars.
Ø Avatars are graphically rendered using computer graphics imaging (CGI) or any other rendering technology.
Ø Individuals control their avatars using input devices like the keyboard, mouse and other specially designed command and simulation gadgets.
Ø Today's virtual worlds are purpose-built for entertainment, social, educational, training and various other purposes.
Social Interaction-Based
Ø Focuses on user interaction, education and training through simulated worlds.
Ø These worlds offer a more open-ended experience such as exploring landscapes, playing adventurous sports, socializing with communities, taking part in political debates or experiments, attending educational sessions, training in a simulated environment and countless other virtual possibilities.
Ø Although younger than gaming worlds, these social virtual worlds are quickly gaining popularity, particularly in educational, political, commercial and military organizations.
Digital Agriculture
Digital Agriculture is “ICT and data ecosystems to support the development and delivery of timely, targeted information and services to make farming profitable and sustainable while delivering safe nutritious and affordable food for ALL.”
Virtual agriculture
Virtual agriculture extended from virtual reality which came out in the mid-1980s. Virtual agriculture is a renovation of traditional agriculture, and a new agricultural research method which gets agriculture domain as the object of study and gets advanced technology as means. It can reduce experiment costs, shorten the research time, and raise the research efficiency that agronomists carry out agricultural research in virtual environments.
Composition of virtual agriculture
· The virtual agriculture is one of the greatest key technologies of digital agriculture. It has vast vistas on the fields of agricultural management of production, planning and resource configuration.
Virtual Agriculture Includes
· Virtual crops, which is used to breed new varieties of rice, corn, wheat, soybean, cotton, and so on; virtual animals, which is used to cultivate new varieties of animal byproducts and aquatic product such as pig, cattle, sheep, chicken, fish; virtual agricultural machinery manufacture, which is used to design.
· Manufacture new energy conservational and high-efficient agricultural machinery to raise working efficiency and utilization ratio of agricultural devices and facilities.
· To raise comprehensive utilization ratio of agricultural resources; virtual farm, which can simulate the market of agricultural products and management of production
Future of Virtual Agriculture Technology
· The development and application of intelligent agricultural expert system
· The application of virtual agriculture in the digital earth
· The application of virtual agriculture in the tour of agriculture
The development and application of intelligent agricultural expert system
· On the existing basis, to study the growth mechanism models of crops, fruit trees, live stocks and fowls, and depending on the knowledge of experts in agriculture.
· To achieve the integration with other information technologies.
· To develop all kinds of high-efficient, practical and intelligent agricultural expert systems.
The application of virtual agriculture in the digital earth
Virtual agriculture uses visualization and virtual reality to simulate agriculture, and to achieve digital agriculture.
The application of virtual agriculture in the tour of agriculture
Ø The tour of agriculture can make rational use of rural resources, simulate the activities of picking, marketing, fishing
Ø playing to get tourists participate, experience and enjoy agricultural production, and arouse tourists’ interests of loving labor, lives and nature.
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