Pest Risk Information Service

Pest Risk Information Service (PRISE) is an innovative crop pest and disease risk forecasting product designed for smallholders and commercial producers in developing countries. PRISE draws on static and dynamic data sources to inform pest risk models of insects and pathogens life cycles which are driven primarily by environmental factors. These sources include i) external data products from existing sources such as land surface temperature, precipitation, humidity and land cover, ii) Earth observation (EO) data such as downscaled surface specific temperature and vegetation state and iii) data collected by existing projects including pest lifecycle data, crowdsourced pest presence/absence data and pest management advice. Bringing together a broad range of stakeholders, including plant protection authorities, space experts, private sector companies, and the farmers themselves, PRISE uses state-of-the-art crop and pest modelling techniques to provide users with advanced warning of a damaging outbreak and appropriate advice to mitigate crop losses.