Location: Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory
Project Number: 8042-22000-167-110-I
Project Type: Interagency Reimbursable Agreement
Start Date: Jan 1, 2024
End Date: Sep 30, 2025
Objective:
The overall objectives are to create a vibrant community of stakeholders involved with analysis and visualization of on-farm data spanning an array of best management strategies to control Huanglongbing spread in citrus.
Objective 1: Maintain the current cyber-infrastructure until it can be replaced by a new technology stack.
Objective 2: Rebuild all Citrus Research and Field Trials program tools with software applications that will be easier and cheaper to maintain.
Objective 3: Create comprehensive documentation for all aspects of the data including protocols for its collection, cleaning, transformation and presentation.
Objective 4: Support all stakeholders by providing training, staffing a hotline for users entering data or attempting to analyze it, and providing real time feedback to Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and ARS leadership on all aspects of internal operations.
Approach:
Leadership includes Steven Mirsky, ARS Research Ecologist at the Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory, and Chris Reberg-Horton, Professor in Crop and Soil Science at North Carolina State University, who are the co-leaders of the Precision Sustainable Agriculture Network (https://precisionsustainableag.org/about-us/ ). Tim Widmer and Tim Rinehart, Agricultural Research Service National Program Leaders, will serve as points of contact at Agricultural Research Service headquarters.
Precision Sustainable Agriculture leadership and team members will meet the needs of the funding agencies, investigators, data collection teams, and producers in the development of the following:
1. As needed, re-establish services from the previous funding including apps for collecting data from growers, as well as APIs, and workflows for collecting program specific information (images, Unmanned aerial vechicle, unmanned ground vehicle, etc). As understood in the previous funding, Precision Sustainable Agriculture team will ensure that the databases are functional, have appropriate curation (metadata standards, interoperability), and are accessible to participating Citrus Research and Field Trials program growers and Citrus Research and Field Trials LLC where deemed appropriate.
2. The Precision Sustainable Agriculture team will establish open-source technology and map existing features to new technology and database structures. All features and databases will be transferred to comparable open-source resources over a one-year period with minimal disruption. The Precision Sustainable Agriculture team will design and initiate workflows for transferring features and data, including additional data capture and automation as necessary.
3. Precision Sustainable Agriculture network will work with Huanglongbing-MAC, Citrus Research and Field Trials program and citrus investigators to establish robust, convenient data sharing protocols, authorizations, security, access, and workflows that supports a Community of Practice amongst all scientists and agency personnel involved in the Citrus Research and Field Trials program.
