Agriculture | Medical Science | Taxonomy | Geology | Land and Water Management | Education
Work with crop diseases, weeds, insect pests or plant varieties?
Agricultural officers and farmers often need to make identifications or diagnoses, such as what herbicide or pesticide to use, or what nutrient to add to their fields. With Lucid, you can produce the tools to help with this decision-making thus enabling good management practices.
Lucid identification keys have already been created for thrips and mites, apple cultivars, urban weeds, crop nematodes, plant pathogens and cotton insects. Diagnostic keys are well developed for rice and sweet potato.
Like to create a diagnostic tool?
Lucid is an ideal tool for creating interactive diagnostic systems. Your knowledge of complaints, symptoms and probable diagnoses can be neatly captured by Lucid and delivered to your audience by CD or over the Internet.
The Key to Diagnosis of Oral Ulceration is a perfect example of what can be achieved with lucid in medical science.
Do you create taxonomic keys?
Lucid Professional is a powerful system for creating comprehensive interactive keys to any group of organisms.
Lucid keys:
Numerous Lucid taxonomic keys have been developed and published and can be accessed via the Lucid Key Search.
Work with rocks, soil or land systems?
Lucid can create information systems for any set of material that can be identified or classified by a known range of criteria. You could use Lucid to create a key to topsoil types, or minerals, or even land systems.
Want help with land and water use decisions?
Many land and water problems require some kind of diagnosis in order to determine the correct treatment. Lucid Professional can be used to construct diagnostic keys to aid the decision-making of land managers.
A key for aquatic invertebrates gives an example of a Lucid key being used in the process of determining river quality.
Want to teach students about identification, classification or diagnosis?
Students in biology would love an interactive key to the creatures in their local area. You can create keys to such things as stream insects, intertidal animals or local plants for your students to use in the lab or in the field.
A key to abstract concepts such as shapes and colours could teach younger students the principles of classification and grouping.
Diagnostic systems (keys) created with Lucid would help medical students of all types learn the probably diagnoses from any set of symptoms.
The possibilities in Lucid are endless.