Integrated and Interdisciplinary Approaches for Research and Education

Apply Advanced Information Technologies

UF/IFAS highlights the development and application of computer information technologies.  By improving abilities to transform data into information, significant applications are affecting a broad range of planning and decision-making applied to real world problems in a broad range of areas.

Process/systems/decision aids

• GIS applications
  • land resource management
  • water quality
• Systems modeling and simulation
  • crop systems
  • climate systems and impact
  • crop yields
  • landscape ecology
  • ecosystem modeling
  • habitat modeling
• Geomatics– integrated approach of measurement, analysis, and management of the descriptions and locations of Earth-based data.
• Remote Sensing

On-line e-learning --distance education

• Degree and Certificate Programs
  • Agricultural Education and Communication
  • Food Science (certificate program in food safety, food and food processing, HAACP, intro to food science, ntutrition, dietary supplements
  • Environmental Track : Soil and Water Science (Masters degree)
  • Entomology: (Masters degree)

On-line educational and research resources

• EDIS: EDIS is the Florida Cooperative Extension's Electronic Data Information Source
• DDIS:  The web-based Distance Diagnostic and Identification System (DDIS) for
  • IFAS Market Information System
  • IPM Linked through a major web-based initiative
  • Plant Management Network

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