Kolloquium Geoinformatik Agricultural Pest Management Solutions based on User-Generated Content

Our project provides volunteer-based pest management solutions that enable farmers to collectively share information regarding pest conditions in agricultural fields. It gathers scattered pieces of pest observation information from individual farmers, uses sense making algorithms to leverage on the information, and produces forecasts of pest infestations which will be available to the community. As a result, the solutions will have the potential to improve agricultural productivity, and by extension, global food security. The talk will first give an overview of the project, and subsequently focus on two aspects: (1) quality assurance of the data provided by farmers; (2) sense making of the data provided by farmers.