Leighanne Hahn

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2008 Indiana GIS Conference
Leighanne Hahn Water Quality/Endangered Species
Program Specialist Office of Indiana State
Chemist February 19, 2008
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Background

• Growing number of vineyards, tomato, certified
  organic and nursery crop acres in Indiana
• Pesticide drift from neighboring fields is major
  concern
• Fruit and vegetable quality impacts
• Economic (production quantity) impacts
• Need exists for accurate map w/location of
  sensitive crop
• Mapped locations accessible to pesticide
  applicators

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Potential Solution Pesticide Sensitive Crop
Registry

• Voluntary grower registration of crop locations
• Visual tool (Google MapTM)
• Aid pesticide applicators to locate sensitive
  crops
• Office of Indiana State Chemist (OISC) website
• Available for anyone to access

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Objective Communication with (pesticide)
applicators

• Locations of sensitive crops
• Beehives, fruits, grapes, certified organic,
  nursery crops, pumpkins/melons, tomatoes,
  vegetables and other
• Sensitive watersheds
• Source water for community drinking water
  supplies
• Endangered species habitat

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Method Voluntary grower enrollment of fields

• Registry website has map and contact form.
• Grower registers, then sketches a polygon around
  their field
• Grower identifies sensitive crop type, then saves
  image and contact information
• image and contact info forwards to OISC
  automatically.
• OISC reviews image (quality control) and adds to
  public website

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Home page with disclaimer language below sponsor
images
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To begin, producers must select register now.
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The familiar Google Map interface handles the
work of locating roads and addresses, and
labeling features. The digitized fields are
draped over Googles images.
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Growers will zoom in on aerial photos and sketch
or select their field. They select crop type from
a list.
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Display Methods

• Grower data sent to public server (computer)
  after quality check by OISC.
• A web page, open to the public, searches for
  location data and adds to Google MapTM.
• Map interface handles road names, aerial photos,
  county lines
• Map interface handles Zoom, Pan, etc.

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Serving the data to applicators
Sensitive areas and fields show over images.
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Recognized Benefits

• Enables effective means of communication
  (detailed maps) between herbicide
• sensitive crop growers and pesticide
  applicatorshttp//www.ok.gov/okag/cps-pslvhome.
  htm
• - Oklahoma Department of Ag
• Growing producer interest and participation
• Increased site awareness by pesticide applicators
• Promotion during industry meetings and
  conferences
• Michigan Department of Transportation using
  similar technique (Maptitude) to map organic
  farms and protected plant areas in SW Michigan.
• Kansas Department of Ag maintains an address list
• Ohio Department of Ag maintains an address list
  (beehives only)

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Blue Print for Action

• High grower group interest
• Indiana Horticulture Congress, Indiana Society of
  American Foresters, Green Expo
• Establish funding commitments
• Indiana Wine Grape Council, Red Gold Inc.,
  Indiana Vegetables Growers Assoc
• Indiana Department of Transportation, Indiana
  Department of Natural Resources
• Website prototype www.isco.purdue.edu/beaware.htm
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• Possible collaborations
• Website sponsorship recognition, Effectiveness
  surveys, Other states
• Initiate Pesticide Sensitive Site Registration
  Winter 2008
• Grower registration (online application/fax-a-map
  form) continuous enrollment (24/7)

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2008 Indiana GIS Conference
Discussion www.isco.purdue.edu/pesticide/beaware.
html cropregistry_at_purdue.edu