Designing a field sampling plan for landscape-pest ecological studies using VHR optical imagery

Abstract The objective of this study was to develop an easily replicable sampling methodology using very high spatial resolution (VHSR) optical imagery to study the effect of landscape composition on crop pest incidence and biological control. The methodology was developed for the millet head miner (MHM), Heliocheilus albipunctella (de Joannis) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), a key pest of millet in Senegal (West Africa). The sampling plan was developed according to two main hypotheses: (i) pest incidence increases with millet abundance in the landscape, and (ii) biological control increases with the abundance of semi-natural habitats in the landscape. VHSR satellite imagery (

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