Citation:
D.J. Parsons, L.R. Benjamin, J. Clarke, D. Ginsburg, A. Mayes, A.E. Milne, D.J.
Wilkinson, Weed Manager-A model-based decision support system for weed
management in arable crops, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Volume 65,
Issue 2, March 2009, Pages 155-167
Abstract:
Weed Manager is a model-based decision support system to assist arable farmers
and advisers in weed control decisions on two time scales: within a single
season and over several years in a rotation. The single season decision is
supported by a wheat crop and annual weed growth simulation, with a multi-stage
heuristic decision model. The rotational aspect uses a model of seed population
dynamics, with decisions optimised using stochastic dynamic programming. Each
time scale has its own user interface within a single program integrated into
the ArableDS framework, which provides data sharing between several decision
support modules. Weed Manager was used by about 100 farmers and consultants in
the 2005–2006 and 2006–2007 seas
