Design and Development of GETMOSYS: A Plant Pathologists' Geotagging and Monitoring System for Infected Banana Plant

Technology sets a new record as people discover novel ideas of the application of technology. Some of these innovations paved the way for solutions to problems in various fields, especially in agriculture. The identified problem is that plant pathologists use different applications such as Google Earth and Microsoft Excel in managing the data given by the growers that will lead to disorganization of location data. Moreover, handling a large amount of data with the GPS coordinates as the only identifier on the map can be tedious and consume significant effort when retrieving the specific data or information needed. To address the issues, a plant pathologists' geotagging and monitoring system for the infected banana plant was designed and developed to remedy the problem of the plant pathologist's recording, tracking the sample with diseases in the vast hectares of banana plantations. It is called GETMOSYS. The GETMOSYS application has two parts: a website specially created to be used by the Pathologist and the mobile app designed to be used by the growers for their grower representatives. The predictive prototyping model was used as the system development method in developing and implementing the software. Black box testing was used for the software testing functionality of the website and mobile application. One plant pathologist and 24 personnel of a banana plantation evaluated the system usability using the User Experience Questionnaire (UEQ). The system shows excellent results in Attractiveness, Perspicuity, Efficiency.