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PESTICIDE ASSESSMENT TOOL FOR RATING INVESTIGATIONS OF TRANSPORT (PATRIOT)
Description:
The Pesticide Assessment Tool for Rating Investigations of Transport (PATRIOT) is designed to provide rapid analyses of ground water vulnerability to pesticides on a regional, state, or local level. PATRIOT assesses ground water vulnerability by quantifying pesticide leaching potential in terms of the pesticide mass transported to the water table. This software package integrates, in a PC environment, a tool that enables analysis of pesticide leaching potential with the data required for area-specific analysis anywhere in the conterminous U.S. PATRIOT is composed of 1) a pesticide fate and transport model (PRZM2, see above), 2) a comprehensive database, 3) an interface that facilitates database exploration, 4) a directed sequence of interaction that guides the user in providing all the necessary information to perform alternative model analyses, and 5) user-selected methods of summarizing and visualizing model results (7). The users of PATRIOT are expected to be State personnel charged with developing pesticide management plans as well as other regulatory and resource management institutions. PATRIOT is designed specifically for minimal user input and rapid analyses in a PC environment; interaction with both the model and the databases has been implemented using the interface development tool ANNIE-IDE (8). ANNIE-IDE is used in PATRIOT to facilitate on-line documentation and assistance, analyses of databases, development of model input and execution, and selection of evaluation options for model output.