Expanding IPMImages to meet the needs of Southern IPM Extension Education and Plant Diagnostic Communities

USDA CSREES

This project will expand IPMImages.org to increase SE IPM Extension and Plant Diagnostic Communities support by working with S.E. Land Grant Universities to digitize and add images to IPMImages where they can be used by educators, practitioners, farmers and the general public.

A 3-year SR-IPM project involving Bugwood and SPDN built an educational, training and outreach image support system is ending soon. Project results include:

• expanding the list of species of concern from 20 species to 1290 species
• Adding 7,700 images
• Modifying the user interface and search features to better support SPDN and IPM

Many more images were acquired than were budgeted for in the project. Recently, several additional SPDN cooperators expressed a willingness to contribute several image sets. Bugwood personnel believe that an additional 5,000 images could be added through this cooperation, but inadequate personnel time exists in the current project to complete these tasks.

Objectives are to:

1. build upon the established cooperation
2. Work with additional SPDN and IPM cooperators
3. develop linkages with the Georgia Distance Diagnostics thru Digital Imaging system
4. identify and integrate additional image sets
5. develop and improve linkages to NPDN/PDIS
6. improve image submission, processing and retrieval tools
7. expand "tools" to increase SPDN and IPM support