The tool's development

The AVH Weed Tracker was developed through a partnership between the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH) for the CRC for Australian Weed Management. The application has been built as an Early Warning System available in open source, with acknowledgment, for application to other dynamic data sets.

A project team was established by CHAH involving members of its IT advisory committee HISCOM from Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne and Perth, project management support from South Australian Department for Environment & Heritage IT Services Branch, and a representative of the CRC. The tool was designed by the project team.

Development was initially undertaken by the South Australian Department for Environment & Heritage IT Services Branch, who established a proof of concept of the tool using the BioCase data delivery engine, while the South Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (SAPAC) completed the building of the tool.