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Development of a web tool for action threshold evaluation in table grape pest management

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Pest control is a major issue in agricultural management due to crop yield losses caused by pests. In this context, integrated pest management aims to suppress pest populations below an action threshold to minimize their impact. This paper presents the development of a web tool based on the Spanish regulations for the integrated pest management of table grapes; this provides decision support for evaluating when a particular pest action threshold has been crossed thus affecting table grape crops. The tool was built using a model-driven software development approach that enables software system generation from the problem’s knowledge model. The design of the knowledge bases which contain the system’s decision rules is also described. It is divided into knowledge bases that contain general knowledge related to the table grape crop as well as several specific knowledge bases (one per pest) containing the reasoning model that deduces the risk associated with a particular pest. The software has been designed by applying the model-driven development method thus making the system flexible, easy to evolve and adaptable whenever a new pest has to be incorporated into the software.

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The authors wish to thank the Consejería de Agricultura y Agua, Servicio de Sanidad Vegetal of Región de Murcia, especially Mr. Alfonso Lucas Espadas for his collaboration in the knowledge elicitation. His knowledge and experience have formed the basis of this work. This research has been partially supported by Data, Knowledge and Software Engineering (DKSE) research group (TIC-181) of the University of Almería.

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    Joaquín Cañadas & Isabel M. del Águila

  2. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, 30100, Murcia, Spain

    José Palma

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Cañadas, J., del Águila, I.M. & Palma, J. Development of a web tool for action threshold evaluation in table grape pest management. Precision Agric 18, 974–996 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11119-016-9487-0

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