Welcome to NAPPFAST!
The NCSU/APHIS Plant Pest Forecast
(NAPPFAST) System is an internet tool for plant pest modeling using
georeferenced climatological weather data.
The system is a joint venture between the Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service (APHIS), North Carolina State University (NCSU), and the
information technology company ZedX, Inc.
The NAPPFAST System is designed to support the predictive pest mapping needs
of the Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey (CAPS) program and the risk
assessment activities of the Pest Epidemiology Risk Assessment Laboratory
(PERAL). The development of NAPPFAST is
sponsored by the CAPS program. You can
read more in the Journal article from Plant Disease or in our latest
2009 annual
report.
If you would like to see risk
maps for the CAPS AHP 2011 top 50 and
other pests please click here.
If you are an APHIS employee or a CAPS cooperator and would like
to use NAPPFAST to create risk maps then you will need a username and
password. Please contact us below. We are also happy to work with other parties
involved in pest risk mapping. There is user manual online as well as a simplified cheat sheet. Since
there is a learning curve associated with the use of the program to create
models, we will be happy to assist you by making a risk map or model for
you. We also have a climate matching
program that can create a risk map from lat/long coordinates.
Please let us know if you need any additional information or have
modeling requests for pests you don't see listed. We are more than happy to assist the CAPS
program in any way we can.
Cheers
Dan Borchert, Ph.D.
Entomologist
USDA/APHIS/PPQ/CPHST/PERAL
P:919-855-7545
F:919-855-7599
Roger D. Magarey,
Senior Researcher, North
Carolina State University
and Cooperator with
USDA-APHIS-PPQ-CPHST-PERAL
1730 Varsity Drive, Suite
300,
Raleigh, NC, 27606
PH 919 855 7537
Fax 919 855-7599