📘 Screen: Scouting

Scouting is the record of pest monitoring done in the field: the scout walks the field, stops at a few points along the way and records what was found at each stop. There is no fixed grid or position set by the system — where to stop and how many times is up to the scout and the farm's routine. In upCampo this work is done on the phone, point by point, and this screen is where the agronomist reviews, corrects and — occasionally — adds what came in from the app.

From these points the system builds the field's result: the average occurrence of each pest and the comparison with the registered action threshold, which tells you whether it is time to spray. Since the total number of points walked is the divisor of the averages, stopping more often gives a truer picture of the area. And a point entered wrong doesn't spoil only that point — it goes into the average for the whole field on that day.

📍 Location in the system

Menu: Crops > Scouting

🧩 Main function

Scouting is done in the field, with the app — that is where the scout opens the point, counts the pest and takes the photo. This web portal screen exists for what the app doesn't handle: reviewing what came in, correcting a wrong entry and making an occasional addition, when someone scouted without the phone or forgot to enter it.

It is ideal for:

• Reviewing the data received
• Correcting small pieces of information
• Occasionally adding a point that was not entered in the app
• Deleting wrong records

Each record contains:

• Date and time of the scouting
• Crop, field, variety
• DAE, plant height and nodes
• Collection points and quantities of pests found
• Photos taken at the time of collection

🔎 The list

The list opens filtered by Season and Date — the date is required, and it defines the scouting day you are reviewing. The columns are Field, Variety, Crop, Date, Stage, User, Point, Opening, Pests, Size, Preset Value and Value, each with its own search box.

📝 Record fields

🔀 "Point Opening": two different records on the same screen

The Point Opening checkbox swaps the whole form. It is what separates the record of the plant from the record of the pest:

Unchecked — pest count

This is the entry for a pest found at the point:

• Type: Plant, Beat Sheet, Meter or Assessment — the method used for the count
• Plant Qty: how many plants were assessed
• Pests: the pest, weed or disease found
• Size: the stage/size of the individual, when the pest is counted that way (small, medium, large caterpillar)
• Value: the count

When the selected pest or size has preset values registered, a list of ready-made options to select appears instead — this speeds up counting in the field and feeds the Preset Value column in the list.

Checked — plant data

This is the point opening record, with the growth measurements. Everything related to pests disappears and a grid of checkbox + value pairs appears: you check what was measured and enter the number next to it. The fields cover:

• Growth: height, number of nodes, internode distance, height of the first to the fifth node and depth
• Population: stand, plants per meter and number of stems
• Soybean: number of pods, height of the first pod and seeds per pod
• Cotton: squares, bolls (small, medium, large and total), bolls by position — from 1 to 5 —, rotten boll, open bolls and boll weevil

These are the measurements that feed the comparison with the ideal vegetative growth of the variety and the crop.

🧮 How upCampo turns points into a result

What the scout enters is the count at each point. The number the agronomist looks at — and that is compared with the action threshold — comes from a calculation over all the points in that field on that day. The form of that calculation comes from the Calculation method field in the pest record:

An example: 10 points walked, pest found in 4 of them, 20 individuals counted in total.

The difference between the two averages is what usually causes confusion: Average per point spreads the pest across the whole field and answers "what is the average pressure on the area"; Average per occurrence looks only where it appeared and answers "where there is some, how much is there". A concentrated hot spot gives a low average per point and a high average per occurrence — and that contrast is exactly what indicates a localized infestation rather than a widespread one.

In the IPM Standard, the result depends on the type of scouting: for beat sheet and m², it is the average per point; per linear meter, the value is expressed per meter; for counting per plant, it becomes a percentage.

📊 Dashboards and overall view

On the platform's home screen there is a dedicated dashboard called Scouting, where the data is analyzed in a consolidated way.

There the agronomist can:

• See scouting grouped by date and field
• Analyze each collection point in detail
• See the map with the georeferenced points
• Check the photos taken in the field
• Check the crop stage at the time of collection
• Access the pest history by field, with comparative data

📱 Scouting in the app

What this screen shows in the web portal starts in the app, in the Scouting (IPM) menu. That is where the scout opens the points and counts the pests — the step by step, with screenshots, is in the Quick Guide - Pest Monitoring. Besides collecting, the scout can look up on the phone itself what has already been done:

• Field history — tapping the field, the app shows the map of the area and, on the IPM HISTORY (SUMMARY) tab, each scouting with the date, who did it, the stage, days after planting, number of points and the values recorded, with the REPORT and DETAIL buttons. Next to it are the WORK ORDER/APPL. and DETAILS tabs.
• MAP — the farm's fields on the map, with a sector filter and legend.
• IPM MGMT ANALYSES — the management view of scouting, by period and user.

📊 Related reports

Crops serve as the basis for several reports on the platform. Some of them are:

Scouting on the phone is up.Monitora, upCampo's pest monitoring module.

❓ Frequently asked questions