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In this paper, we introduce PulAm a mobile application based on the Android operating system, which was designed as a support tool for the monitoring process of different crops. As a case study, we introduced the monitoring of sorghum crops, specifically against the “yellow sugarcane aphid.”
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We thank the staff of CESAVENAY for all their help, both technical and logistical for the data collection in the field. Alejandra Perez-Mena thanks CONACyT for the financial grant provided through the scholarship # 613382.
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Perez-Mena, A., Fernández-Zepeda, J.A., Rivera-Caicedo, J.P., Avila-George, H. (2019). PulAm: An App for Monitoring Crops. In: Mejia, J., Muñoz, M., Rocha, Á., Peña, A., Pérez-Cisneros, M. (eds) Trends and Applications in Software Engineering. CIMPS 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 865. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01171-0_18
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