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PulAm: An App for Monitoring Crops

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In this paper, we introduce PulAm a mobile application based on the Android operating system, which was designed as a support tool for the monitoring process of different crops. As a case study, we introduced the monitoring of sorghum crops, specifically against the “yellow sugarcane aphid.”

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Acknowledgments

We thank the staff of CESAVENAY for all their help, both technical and logistical for the data collection in the field. Alejandra Perez-Mena thanks CONACyT for the financial grant provided through the scholarship # 613382.

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  1. Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Ensenada, B.C., Mexico

    Alejandra Perez-Mena & José Alberto Fernández-Zepeda

  2. Cátedras CONACyT, Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit, Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico

    Juan Pablo Rivera-Caicedo

  3. Centro Universitario de los Valles, Universidad de Guadalajara, Ameca, Jalisco, Mexico

    Himer Avila-George

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  1. Unidad Zacatecas, Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas A. C., Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico

    Jezreel Mejia

  2. Unidad Zacatecas, Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas A. C., Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico

    Mirna Muñoz

  3. Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

  4. Departamento de Ciencias Computacionales, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

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  5. Centro Universitario de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

    Marco Pérez-Cisneros

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Perez-Mena, A., Fernández-Zepeda, J.A., Rivera-Caicedo, J.P., Avila-George, H. (2019). PulAm: An App for Monitoring Crops. In: Mejia, J., Muñoz, M., Rocha, Á., Peña, A., Pérez-Cisneros, M. (eds) Trends and Applications in Software Engineering. CIMPS 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 865. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01171-0_18

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