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Open AccessArticle10.30843/nzpp.2013.66.5689

Spray Plan Manager a decisionsupport tool for regulatory compliance and improving agrichemical use practices

A.J. Hodson,Mike Barley,L.R. Hodson-Kersey,J.T.S. Walker,D.W.L. Manktelow,N.M. Park-2013-01-08-Proceedings of the New Zealand Weed Control Conference
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Spray Plan Manager (SPM) is a decision support tool that helps users manage and document agrichemical use plans for compliance and for environmental and user risk reduction Refined and relaunched in 2013 at wwwsprayplanconz SPM has a base user group of 1700 registered plans across 76 crop types SPM takes agrichemical users through a stepwise property spray plan development SPM uses online GIS mapping to assist in agrichemical risk management around identified sensitive areas SPM uses agrichemical HSNO hazard classifications to describe personal protective equipment requirements for agrichemical mixing and application operations For ongoing management of boundary and sensitive areas spray drift risks can be estimated using forecast wind speed wind direction humidity and temperature SPM ranks drift conditions on a scale from 1 (suitable) to 4 (unsuitable) and displays the usersupplied forecast directional risks on the property map This has introduced a near realtime management component

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Spray Plan Manager (SPM) is a decision support tool that helps users manage and document agrichemical use plans for compliance and for environmental and user risk reduction Refined and relaunched in 2013 at wwwsprayplanconz SPM has a base user group of 1700 registered plans across 76 crop types SPM takes agrichemical users through a stepwise property spray plan development SPM uses online GIS mapping to assist in agrichemical risk management around identified sensitive areas SPM uses agrichemical HSNO hazard classifications to describe personal protective equipment requirements for agrichemical mixing and application operations For ongoing management of boundary and sensitive areas spray drift risks can be estimated using forecast wind speed wind direction humidity and temperature SPM ranks drift conditions on a scale from 1 (suitable) to 4 (unsuitable) and displays the usersupplied forecast directional risks on the property map This has introduced a near realtime management component

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AgrochemicalPlan (archaeology)HazardScale (ratio)Task (project management)Risk analysis (engineering)Environmental resource managementEnvironmental science

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