Leighanne Hahn Water Quality/Endangered Species Program Specialist

Office of Indiana State ChemistFebruary 19, 2008

2008 Indiana GIS Conference

Background Growing number of vineyards, tomato, certified organic and nursery crop acres in IndianaPesticide 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 cropMapped locations accessible to pesticide applicators

Potential Solution: Pesticide Sensitive Crop Registry

Voluntary grower registration of crop locationsVisual tool (Google MapTM)Aid pesticide applicators to locate sensitive cropsOffice of Indiana State Chemist (OISC) website

Available for anyone to access

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

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

Home page with disclaimer language below sponsor images

To begin, producers must select “register now.”

The familiar Google Map interface handles the work of locating roads and addresses, and labeling features.The digitized fields are draped over Google’s images.

Growers will zoom –in on aerial photos and sketch or select their field. They select crop type from a list.

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.

Serving the data to applicators

Sensitive areas and fields show over

images.

Recognized Benefits:“Enables effective means of communication (detailed maps)

between herbicide sensitive crop growers and pesticide applicators”

http://www.ok.gov/~okag/cps-pslvhome.htm

- Oklahoma Department of Ag

Growing producer interest and participationIncreased site awareness by pesticide applicatorsPromotion 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 listOhio Department of Ag maintains an address list (beehives only)

Blue Print for Action: High grower group interest

Indiana Horticulture Congress, Indiana Society of American Foresters, Green Expo

Establish funding commitmentsIndiana Wine Grape Council, Red Gold Inc., Indiana Vegetables Growers

AssocIndiana Department of Transportation, Indiana Department of Natural

Resources

Website prototype www.isco.purdue.edu/beaware.html 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)

Discussionwww.isco.purdue.edu/pesticide/beaware.html

cropregistry@purdue.edu

2008 Indiana GIS Conference