Why is Weed control important?

Weeds compete with crops and reduce agricultural output, and increases farmers external cost. Weeds produce numerous viable seeds and their population quickly builds up in an exponential pattern.

Weeds are also a major constraint to farmers productivity and cost Australian economy in $4 billion annually in weed control efforts.

What is WeedDetector?

The web application allows new farmers, hobby farmers, gardeners and also existing farmers to:

• Search for weeds by name, growth form, and flower color

• Identify and display weed that match the picture uploaded by user

• Display weed information, and methods to control the spread of weed.

• Allow users to report weed that are in prohibited list

• Allow registered users to create “most occurring” weed as a bookmark

Why do we need WeedDetector?

If you are passionate about controlling weeds in your region, you need tools to identify the weed and report if the weed belongs to an Alert list.

The WeedDetector application allows users to:

• Prioritize weed control effort in their area of interest

• Prevent weeds in alert list from becoming a problem

• Track changes in weed occurrences over time

• Provide weed control methods