I
have been working on the Slow the spread of Gypsy moths project since
May 2002. My work has included updating and documenting a program used
by the group. You can see the results of the program at http://da.ento.vt.edu
As part of this, I created a poster that helps to explain how this
Decision Algorithm works.
After that, I started integrating the program with oracle. This involved
creating a database for all the results and a program for pulling the
data from another oracle database and performing reprojections on the
spacial data. Most of this coding was done in a mix of C++ and PERL, using
the Oracle C++ Call Interface (OCCI). Sample reports can be seen at http://da.ento.vt.edu/oracle.html
The next project that I worked on for the STS group was a data loader
for some custom in house software. As part of the project, we have approximately
300 trappers across 10 states places, checking, and removing about 100,000
traps per year. For every trap there is a count, X coordinate, and Y coordinate.
In an effort to make gathering data easier, an in-house software was developed
for gathering all this data, called Trapper Gadget. I was given the task
of getting data files to and from the trapper gadget and the supervisor's
desktop. This software that I wrote became known as the Trapper Gadget
Desktop Utilities. It is a Visual Basic program made up of 3 OCX controls
that deal with transferring data and viewing and modifying data files
as needed.
