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Future Internet 2011, 3, 319-343; doi:10.3390/fi3040319 OPEN ACCESS future internet ISSN 1999-5903 /journal/futureinternet Article An Online Landscape Object Library to Support Interactive Landscape Planning Subhash Sharma 1,*, Christopher Pettit 2, Ian Bishop 3, Pang Chan 4 and Falak Sheth 1 1 Department of Primary Industries, 32 Lincoln Square North, Carlton 3052, Victoria, Australia; E-Mail: falak.sheth@.au 2 Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne 3010, Victoria, Australia; E-Mail: cpettit@.au 3 Department of Infrastructural Engineering, University of Melbourne 3010, Victoria, Australia; E-Mail: i.bishop@.au 4 Department of Sustainability and Environment, 1 Spring Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; E-Mail: Pang.Chan@.au * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: subhash.sharma@.au; Tel.: +61-3-8341-2430; Fax: +61-3-9347-6056. Received: 2 November 2011; in revised form: 12 December 2011 / Accepted: 15 December 2011 / Published: 20 December 2011 Abstract: Using landscape objects with geo-visualisation tools to create 3D virtual environments is becoming one of the most prominent communication techniques to understand landscape form, function and processes. Geo-visualisation tools can also provide useful participatory planning support systems to explore current and future environmental issues such as biodiversity loss, crop failure, competing pressures on water availability and land degra