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Last Edited: 10/24/12
Agricultural Pesticide Use Web Mapping Service
This page demonstrates many of the capabilies of the California Environmental Health Tracking Program (CEHTP) Agricultural Pesticide Use Web Map Service(WMS). This implementation is a custom OpenGeospatial Consortium WMS. Originating from the California Department of Pesticide Regulation, County Agricultural Commissioners,
Agricultural Growers, and Pesticide Operators, the Pesticide Use Report data has very detailed information across space and time. We attempted to summarize this information flexibly, but without making the interface too complex. Some of the options include:
- Multiple years of reporting
- Various measures of pesticide application intensity
- Various geographic units in which data is displayed
- Maps of individual pesticide chemicals or groups of chemicals
- Maps of individual application sites (crops) or groups of sites
- Statewide maps or maps by individual counties
Department of Pesticide Regulation links
- Pesticide Use Reporting homepage -- California’s pesticide use reporting program is recognized as the most comprehensive in the world. In 1990, California became the first state to require full reporting of agricultural pesticide use in response to demands for more realistic and comprehensive pesticide use data. Under the program, all agricultural pesticide use must be reported monthly to county agricultural commissioners, who in turn, report the data to DPR.
- California Pesticide Illness Query (CalPIQ) -- CalPIQ-California Pesticide Illness Query-retrieves the most frequently requested information from DPR's Pesticide Illness Surveillance Program (PISP) database.
- California Pesticide Information Portal (CalPIP) -- CalPIP delivers user-friendly Internet access to the Department of Pesticide Regulation's extensive pesticide use and label information (PUR Data Source), Ground Water Protection Area information (GWPA Data Source, and the recently added Pesticide Regulation's Endangered Species Custom Realtime Internet Bulletin Engine).