Agriculture pest control app

Snail control is estimated to cost the Western Australia (WA) grains industry $1.86 million dollars per annum. If these pests are not controlled, then damage is estimated to cost $19.25 million dollars in lost yield and quality in grain crops.

The most common control method employed by growers for snail control is the application of baits at a single rate over the entire paddock which isnt efficient. If a map could be produced showing the density of snails across a paddock, growers could target their controls more effectively.

In this project, an App will be developed to capture images of snails and use an existing model to create statistical analysis about density and geospatial population of snails. The output will be exported in pdf or geospatial data formats. It is not the aim of this project to create an AI model to count snails. However, the existing AI model should be deployed and run on smartphones.

Students will have the opportunity to work with Mapizy, a deep tech company based at UWA, and private companies as well as government bodies on a project with a significant impact on WA economy, environment and agriculture.

Client


Contact: Dr Mehdi Ravanbakhsh
Phone: 0426797142
Email: [email protected]
Preferred contact: Email,SMS
Location: UWA-Perth

IP Exploitation Model


The IP exploitation model requested by the Client is: Creative Commons (open source) http://creativecommons.org.au/


Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering
The University of Western Australia
Last modified: 22 June 2020
Modified By: Michael Wise 		UWA