Digital technologies for diagnosis of insect pest, disease and weed problems Geoff Norton 1 , Matt Taylor, Damian Barnier & Mike Rickerby Identic Pty Ltd, Brisbane, Australia 1 Adjunct Professor, The University of Queensland
Outline • What’s the problem & possible solutions? • Overview of Lucid software • Examples of Lucid identification tools [Weed identification] • Examples of diagnostic tools [Diagnosing field crop and rice problems] • Strategy behind the Lucid approach
What’s the problem Correct identification and diagnosis of pest organisms is critical for biosecurity & for best crop management practice Taxonomic and practical field expertise is declining Consequently, urgent need for support to improve pest identification and diagnosis of crop disorders.
Various approaches to the problem Farmer field schools Brochures and Leaflets Training para-taxonomists Field diagnostic clinics
Smartphone keys Available digital technologies PestNet email community Image databases Online keys Remote diagnostics
Lucid software: Digital (matrix) keys First developed at University of Queensland over 15 years ago Today, Lucid software consists of: The Lucid Builder (version 3.5) for building identification aids Fact Sheet Fusion - for creating, updating and designing multi-media fact sheets Lucid Players – for use by farmers, advisors, biosecurity officers, weed spotters, students, etc…
The Lucid Builder • Used by taxonomists, agronomists and others to construct identification and diagnostic keys Currently used in over 130 countries Key to Insect Orders
Fact Sheet Fusion Dedicated database to rapidly create and “publish” standardized fact sheets in HTML, PDF or XML. http://www.lucidcentral.org/fusion/
FSF Templates Examples of different fact sheet outputs
Delivery of Lucid ID and Diagnostic Aids Smartphone apps DVD Online key (Android & iOS) Pest Thrips of Environmental Weeds Biosecurity Queensland North America USB Rainforest plants of Australia
Examples: Lucid Weed Identification Aids
Collaborative weed key developments Key to 100 major environmental Over 2,000 invasive weeds weeds of East Africa in the Lucid & FSF database. Provides a basis for collaborative weed key development. Key to important weed species of New Zealand
Examples: Diagnostic Aids (Apps)
Diagnostic Aids – My Crop Series of diagnostic keys for Barley, Wheat, Canola, Pulses Developed by the Department of Agriculture and Food in Western Australia https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/mycrop View Tutorial of the Wheat Diagnostic tool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN9OduqDzzM
Diagnostic Aids: Rice Doctor This online version of the tool provides support in diagnosing disorders found in rice in South-East Asia and providing fact sheets for each disorder. http://www.knowledgebank.irri. org/decision-tools/rice-doctor
Rice Doctor: Lucid Key The online Rice Doctor key is embedded in the IRRI website. Fact sheets can be accessed from this key or directly from the website.
Rice Doctor: apps version
Rice Doctor: Observation & Reporting App
Cambodian Rice Doctor [Tagalog and Hindi app in development]
The Lucid Strategy • Experts can transfer their expertise to a digital form using Lucid and Fact Sheet Fusion (FSF) • This expertise can be made available to non-experts: online, on USB and DVD, as mobile apps and printed fact sheets • Lucid and FSF meet global standards: data can be exported to and imported from other software platforms • Lucid and FSF enable digital key data, text and images to be readily edited, updated, converted to other languages and shared with other collaborators • Lucid Mobile apps can record identifications and diagnoses, capture images and report findings
Acknowledgements My co-authors - Matt Taylor and Damian Barnier - have been the main developers of Lucid over the past decade. Sincere thanks to many others, too numerous to mention here, who have made important contributions to the Lucid strategy, through their feedback on design and implementation of Lucid tools in the field. www.lucidcentral.org
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