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OSCAR, an open source software that recognizes weeds
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During the past few years, the IFP has resolutely engaged itself in projects aiming to introduce the new information technologies in the field of study of biodiversity. This investment, based on international projects in South and South-East Asia is starting to reap fruits : the open source software «Open Source Simple Computer for Agriculture in Rural Areas» (OSCAR) has just been published in its Internet version.
This software was created in the framework of the Asia IT&C programme of the European Commission, by the French Institute of Pondicherry (leader), the CIRAD (UMR AMAP), the Rice & Wheat Consortium for the Indo-Gangetic plains (Delhi, India) and the University of Wageningen (Netherlands). It allows to identify the rice and weed species of the Indo-Gangetic plains (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan) through an attractive graphical interface and accessible to non-specialists, with, as aim, to improve the practices of monitoring weeds (“Precision agriculture”)
This software was presented last April in Delhi, in the presence of Indian authorities, of the Ambassadors of the European Union and of the Netherlands in India and of the press. A Public demonstration in the presence of the Minister of Education of the State of Pondicherry will be given at the IFP in the beginning of the month of September.
For more information, see the OSCAR Project Sheet.
For direct access to the software, click here.