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10 July 2024
Citizen Science
#IPMPopillia
Monitoring
In recent months, the IPM Popillia Consortium has collaborated with SPOTTERON to create informational and dissemination materials about the invasive Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica), which has been spreading across Europe for several years. R...
10 June 2024
Citizen Science
#IPMPopillia
Prof. Francesco Nardi (University of Siena) and Prof. Rossella Annoni (junior high school G. Falcone, Cassina de' Pecchi, Milan) have been working together, this past year, with class 2D (12-13 years old pupils) on Popillia within the context of the ...
29 May 2024
Pest management
Project reports
#IPMPopillia
Monitoring
Since 2023, the village of Kloten north of Zurich is not only famous for the Zurich Airport and for having a great ice hockey team, but also for harboring the first Popillia population in Europe north of the Alps. In summer and autumn of 2023, huge e...
Design process of IPM Popilla Citizen Science App Design process of IPM Popilla Citizen Science App

First prototype version of the IPM Popilla Citizen Science App in the making!

The year 2022 has just begun. Right after the holiday season, we at SPOTTERON Citizen Science Platform have started the first phase of direct production and creating the definitions for the IPM Popilla Citizen Science Smartphone App - what a start for a year!

In the past, we have already prepared many building blocks and parts to launch our first EU Horizon 2020 Citizen Science App. The App will allow data collection on location and includes community and communication features for direct interaction between users and scientists. For the launch of the first EU-wide Citizen Science App on the platform, we have overhauled the underlying technical infrastructure. We have made optimizations for performance and data quality and worked on the engineering side to release a first App version for IPM Popillia in a short while.

The App is by concept planned to grow and extend - for that purpose and future App version, we have developed methodologies for including taxonomies of, e.g. more agricultural pest insects, but for a first prototype, we will first focus on the invasive species in focus - the Japanese Beetle Popillia japonica.

Since Citizen Science Apps are never "done", also the IPM Popillia App will adapt, grow and change over time. This allows us to start with a first prototype version that can already be put to use within the project and with peers on location. In the future, we can extend and open up the scope of the Citizen Science App to include more people or even partnerships with projects who want to use the App in terms of agricultural pest monitoring.

The drafting of the first version's data structure and dialogue for adding data points has begun, and things are shaping up; stay tuned for more news and updates!

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