service the office computer 110 may also exchange data directly with the device each stationary computer 110 115 may include internal or external storage 117 each stationary computer that is part of the an agricultural situational awareness tool may be a dedicated computer e g a computer owned by the farm operator or it may be a cloud server i e a computer that may be remote that is connected to the internet accessed primarily through the internet and that need not be owned by the farm operator nor used exclusively by the farm operator the web server may be owned maintained and operated by a third party for example each mobile device may be a mobile phone with internet capabilities a tablet computer a laptop computer or other portable computing device the stationary computer or computers may form a central controller 125 which may be geographically distributed that coordinates scouting operations as used herein a u201c central controller u201d is any computer which may be a distributed computer i e it may include several computers that is configured to coordinate scouting operations crop scouts may also gather data on the farm each crop scout may use a mobile device 120 to gather store and communicate data while scouting the mobile device may include a display one or more input devices e g a touch screen a microphone and a camera a global positioning system gps receiver interfaces e g usb u2122 or bluetooth u2122 for communication with external instruments or sensor such as a thermometer or hygrometer and one or more wireless interfaces e g a cellular interface such as 3g u2122 4g u2122 or lte u2122 or an interface such as wifi.