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Title: Invasive Weed Management Is Site-Specific Weed Management.

Author
item Wiles, Lori

Submitted to: Weed Science Society of America Meeting Abstracts
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 2/7/2010
Publication Date: 2/7/2010
Citation: Wiles, L. 2010. Invasive Weed Management Is Site-Specific Weed Management.. Weed Science Society of America Meeting Abstracts.

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Site-specific weed management in crops and invasive weed management in natural lands and rangelands appear to be unrelated research areas but there are many connections in the research problems, approaches and solutions. An obvious link is technology. The technology of precision agriculture - GPS, digital cameras and GIS and image software – is used by both groups. Other links may not be so obvious. These include the challenges of identifying accurate methods of sampling (crops) and monitoring (invasive weeds), creating maps with limited data, and understanding and predicting the spatial distributions of weeds. Advances in both areas will require adapting complex methods of spatial analysis and new techniques for analysis of messy observational data from other disciplines. Researchers of both groups could benefit by overlooking the differences in terminology, recognizing the similarities, and sharing research approaches and advances.