SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH: TRACKING BIODIVERSITY IN THE AMAZON RAIN FORESTS
October 31, 2008
October 31, 2008
BROOKINGS, S.D., Oct. 31 -- South Dakota State University issued the following news release:
NASA is paying researchers on the cool prairies of South Dakota to help track biodiversity in the steamy rain forests of the Brazilian Amazon.
It's not as odd as it sounds.
Professor Mark Cochrane in South Dakota State University's Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence said much of the work relies on interpreting satellite imagery, one . . .
NASA is paying researchers on the cool prairies of South Dakota to help track biodiversity in the steamy rain forests of the Brazilian Amazon.
It's not as odd as it sounds.
Professor Mark Cochrane in South Dakota State University's Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence said much of the work relies on interpreting satellite imagery, one . . .