IPM-PIPE BasicsIPM-PIPE Basics
Don Hershman IPM-PIPE Steering Committee Chair
Univ of Kentucky
Jim VanKirkS-IPM Center Director
North Carolina State Univ
OutlineOutline
• Brief overview of IPM-PIPE.• IPM-PIPE component public
websites.• Key features of password-
protected website.
IPM-PIPEIPM-PIPE
• Integrated Pest
Management
• Pest
• Information
• Platform for
• Extension and Education
IPM-PIPE BasicsIPM-PIPE Basics
• International, multi-institutional, multi-
agency, multi-organizational activity:• 41 states/territories, 5 Canadian Provinces, 5 Mexican
States
• 100’s of individuals are involved.
• Facilitated by an Executive Committee
and 22 member Steering Committee.
• Majority funding from USDA-Aphis in
2005 and USDA-RMA in 2006-07 +
significant funding from check-off
sources, LGU’s and state government.
1. Soybean RustPIPE
Initiated in 2005
2. Soybean AphidPIPE
Initiated in 2006
3. Legume PIPE
Pilot initiated in 2007
COMPONENTS
4. What’s next?
IPM-PIPE Components are Based
on Traditional IPM Template
IPM-PIPE Components are Based
on Traditional IPM Template
• Collect pertinent information
• Analyze information
• Access recommendations and
make decisions
• Keep records
• Feed the results back into the
loop
What makes the PIPE unique?What makes the PIPE unique?
• Unprecedented coordination and
implementation of crop and/or pest-
specific IPM activities and pest diagnosis.
• State of the art IT for uploading, managing,
displaying and archiving crop and pest data.
• Large scale use of data to fuel individual
and ensemble disease forecasting models.
• Efficient end-user interface (public website) to
access near real-time national and state-
specific, crop and pest conditions,
recommendations and documents …..”one stop
shopping”.
SBR Public Interfacewww.sbrusa.net
SBA Public Interface
No public Legume PIPE interface for 2007
No public Legume PIPE interface for 2007
• Pilot project only involving password-protected website
• Probable public interface beginning in 2008.
Management of state specific data, information and documents via password-protected web access
PASSWORD-PROTECTED SBR INTERFACE for Specialists
Pest selection
Password protected SBA interface for specialists
ZOOM TOOL
Calendar
Model outputs
Specialist Tools
State Commentary Management
State-specific documents can be uploaded
Observation map
DATA OBSERVATION BY STATE, COUNTY OR POINT
PASSWORD PROTECTED INTERFACE FOR OBSERVERS (DATA UPLOAD)