Specifying a strategy for deciding tactical adjustment of crop protection using CPN tools
B. Léger, Olivier Naud, David Gouache · 2011
Crop protection is a key activity for farmers. There is a need to improve the practice and use less chemical pesticides. We hypothesized that farmers may be overwhelmed by the amount of data available. Therefore we proposed the concept of crop protection decision workflow system (CPDeWS) to guide them in interpreting the information in tactical adjustments of treatment decisions. We provide here a short introduction to Petri nets, and show how the CPDeWS concept was mapped onto Petri nets, in the case of wheat. Finally we adopt a broad view to discuss our design and modelling choices, that are applicable to a wide set of crop protection and crop management problems.