Northeast Region IPM Grants Projects Funded, FY 2002

Project Title:

Regional Monitoring for Northeastern IPM

*Award shown is total amount to be used over the course of the project term.

Executive Summary

Pest monitoring is the primary, but constantly changing, ecological information used for IPM, but monitoring programs are hard to develop and maintain in this agro- and social landscape due to farm and crop diversity, spatial segregation of farms in urbanizing landscapes, and the smaller size of many farms. This proposal advances the timely creation, management, delivery and utilization of pest monitoring information across numerous small farms nested in heterogeneous, often urbanizing landscapes. We propose to establish a regional human and information technology infrastructure for organization and delivery of agricultural pest monitoring information in the northeastern IPM region using integrated GIS and Web ("web-mapping") technology, using sweet corn as a model system. Specific objectives are to:

1. Establish and expand a human and georeferenced data infrastructure, add spatial scaling and dynamic querying to web-displayed maps of pest pressure with interfaces useful to growers today, and develop useful visualization methods.
2. Incorporate pest phenology maps.

We will use sweet corn as the model system based on needs defined in participatory activities, the importance of sweet corn in the region, and the potential for pesticide reduction. We will build from progress in monitoring technologies, phenology modeling, previous web/GIS infrastructure building, and advances in web-mapping informational technologies. The results will be directly incorporated into ongoing IPM programs in multiple states. We will evaluate impacts with web tracking and focus groups.

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Objectives

1) establish and expand a human and georeferenced data infrastructure in the northeast, add spatial scaling and dynamic querying functionality to web-displayed maps of pest pressure with interfaces useful to growers today, and develop useful visualization methods to capture the 3 dimensions (x and y location, and time) of the information.

2) Incorporate pest phenology with the e maps of pest pressure, and enable rapid reviews of both information themes.

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