A concise technical overview documenting the introduction, features, training, and results of implementing a specific technology (e.g., drones for locust surveillance, biopesticides) in a field program, focusing on solution design, rollout process, and operational impacts rather than detailed procedures or ongoing reports.

If you are interested in technology deployment summaries, you will also like trial summary reports, operational field reports, outbreak reports, situation bulletins, and videos because they all document practical implementation, results, and operational impacts of technology use in locust and grasshopper field programs.

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Name	Year published	Resource link	Author
Desert locust control in Somalia between 2019 and 2021	2022
FAO Emergency Centre for Locust Operations After Action Review 2005	2005	View	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAO Multilateral evaluation of the 2003-05 Desert Locust campaign	2006	View	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Field tests on an integrated Differential GPS navigation and spray monitoring system for aerial Desert Locust control operations	1998	View	Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Lessons learned from the 2004 FAO aerial operations against desert locustx	2005	View	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Real-time evaluation of FAO's response to the desert locust upsurge 2020–2021	2022		Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
The use of drones for Desert Locust survey		View	FAO Desert Locust Information Service, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations