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PestLens: an early‐warning system supporting U.S. safeguarding against exotic plant pests
Author(s) -
Meissner H.E.,
Fritz J.M.,
Kohl L.M.,
Moylett H.C.,
Moan M.J.,
Emerine S.E.,
Kaye A.C.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
eppo bulletin
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.327
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1365-2338
pISSN - 0250-8052
DOI - 10.1111/epp.12211
Subject(s) - safeguarding , dissemination , warning system , plant quarantine , early warning system , quarantine , business , computer security , risk analysis (engineering) , environmental planning , environmental resource management , computer science , geography , ecology , biology , telecommunications , environmental science , medicine , nursing
The effectiveness of safeguarding and quarantine actions aimed at preventing the introduction and minimizing the impact of exotic plant pests relies on current information about those pests. National Plant Protection Organizations ( NPPO s) face the following challenges: staying up to date on continuously emerging new pest information, filtering and evaluating this information, disseminating it effectively and efficiently, applying it toward decision making, and coordinating and tracking the resulting decisions and safeguarding actions. PestLens, the web‐based early‐warning system of the NPPO of the United States, is designed to address all of these challenges. This paper describes the PestLens system and discusses lessons learned during system development and operation.