Sentinels boost region-specific pest and disease monitoring

Sentinels boost region-specific pest and disease monitoring

Despite ongoing travel restrictions around the country, snow in the New South Wales Northern Tablelands and minor flood warnings in Tamworth, the iMapPESTS team successfully deployed its new and improved mobile surveillance unit, Sentinel 5, to Tamworth Agricultural Institute (TAI) in June 2021.

In a collaboration between the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) and NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI), the mobile surveillance unit was deployed at TAI to monitor high-priority insect pests and fungal pathogens for the grains industry… read more.

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