Feasibility of developing autonomous SmartTraps for remote monitoring Spotted Wing Drosophila in soft and stone fruit

本项目将研究开发一种自主的SmartTraps系统的可行性，以远程监控入侵的水果害虫--成虫斑翅果蝇(SWD)。在一个紧凑的、自主的、非饱和的诱捕器中，通过图像分析快速准确地识别近显微斑点果蝇雌雄的可行性将被确定为关键的初步步骤和技术挑战。除了这项可行性研究的成功结果外，还需要为一个完整的系统开发其他关键程序，包括陷阱通信、基于云的数据汇总和分析，以及基于网络和应用程序的工具，以整合陷阱的汇总数据，以便为种植者提供决策支持。该捕虫器将使社署能够更密切和更可靠地监测害虫，并将是针对害虫的监测技术的重大进步，该技术将在全球范围内广泛应用于众多害虫。

This project will investigate the feasibility of developing an autonomous SmartTraps system for remotely monitoring adult Spotted Wing Drosophila (SWD), an invasive fruit pest. The feasibility of rapidly and accurately identifying the near microscopic Spotted Wing Drosophila males and females by image analysis in a compact, autonomous, non-saturating trap will be determined as the key preliminary step and technological challenge. Other key processes that will need to be developed for a full system beyond a successful outcome of this feasibility study include between trap communication, cloud based data aggregation and analysis, and web and app-based tools to integrate summary data from traps in order to provide decision support for growers. The trap will allow much closer and more reliable monitoring of SWD, and will be a significant advancement in pest specific monitoring technology which will have wide application for numerous pests globally.