1. Detecting Colorado Potato
Beetle Damage Using Small
Unmanned Aircraft
SILVIA I. RONDON
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
EXTENSION ENTOMOLOGIST SPECIALIST
2015

2. Working group
Research Office
InSitu USDA-ARS
Don Horneck†
Philip Hamm
Silvia Rondon
A.E. Bruce
Robert Turner
Paul Parks
Josh Brungardt
David Blair
Ray Hunt

3. Hermiston Agricultural Research & Extension Center: HAREC

5. How to develop a prescription plan?
How do we identify and geo-locate
plant stress?
Existing approaches to identify stress:
Historical yield maps
Core samples and leaf samples
Insect data
Disease data
Multi Spectral and Hyper Spectral
Imagery: Aircraft or Satellites

6. DETECTION OF NITROGEN DEFICIENCY IN POTATOES USING SMALL
UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS
E. Raymond Hunt, Jr., USDA-ARS, Beltsville MD
Don Horneck† and Phil Hamm, HAREC, OSU, Hermiston, OR
Dan Gadler, Gene Bruce, Bob Turner, and Charlie Spinelli,
Boeing Research and Technology, Kent WA
Josh Brungardt, Paradigm-ISR, Bend OR
2014

12. Image day before the beetle outbreak

13. Image next day with beetle outbreak

15. What is next ?
Independent study by USDA and
OSU to asses utility of information
Validation of data
Growers interested in this
technology

16. Acknowledgements