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Tor-Einar Skog authoredTor-Einar Skog authored
IPM Decisions models in VIPS
The Horizon 2020 project IPM Decisions has produced a
[..]“one stop shop” for decisions support in integrated pest management. It is a web-based framework providing farmers, advisors and researchers access to a wide range of Decision Support Systems and weather data from across Europe through a set of four dashboards[...]
A curated set of European DSSs and weather data sources have been made available in the platform through APIs developed by NIBIO, Met Norway and LUKE.
The DSSs have been made available through the IPM Decisions platform (see screenshot below) where farmers, advisors and researchers can log in and configure their farm and fields and choose between the available DSSs. Weather data can either be provided by the user's private weather station or by the open weather data sources available in the platform.
Screenshot of the IPM Decisions platform
The APIs are designed as web services that are open for use by other clients than the IPM Decisions platform. This means that a DSS provider can use the APIs to discover and make other DSSs available directly from their DSS platform/web page, without having to implement the algorithms for that DSS. In the platform, metadata are available for all DSSs and weather data sources. These metadata are structured in a way that as soon as client code has been implemented for one DSS (from IPM Decisions), only minimal adaptations are needed to add new DSSs (from IPM Decisions).