Project Overview
Howard W. Beck, Jianong Xin, Min Zhong

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

University of Florida

hwb@ufl.edu
The SPDN data network is designed to share information on pest diagnostics among:

  1. Individual states in the southern region that each have their own local diagnostics database.

  2. A centralized SPDN regional center that pools information from southern states into a single southern regional database at the University of Florida.

  3. A national NPDPDN central database at Purdue University that pools information from five regional centers.

The data network thus provides a way for states to send their data to the regional center, and a way for the regional center to forward this data to the national center.

Descriptions of various software components needed to implement this network are described.



Rationale for use of XML

Main Components of the NPDPDN Network

What Individual States Need to Know

What Regional Centers Need to Know

What the National NPDPDN center Needs to Know

NPDPDN XML Schema

Java Utilities to Support the NPDPDN Network

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