• Blight! Activity provides Landsat and MODIS images from NASA that you will use to analyze drought with respect to agricultural consequences.

Selected by the sciLINKS program, a service of National Science Teachers Association. Copyright 2001.

• NASA's Earth Observatory article: "Precision Farming," online 29 January 2001
  Read about a new generation of farmers who are using aerial and satellite remote sensing imagery to help them more efficiently manage their croplands.
  
  
• NASA's Earth Observatory article: "From the Dust Bowl to the Sahel," online 18 May 2001
  Read about how severe drought combined with poor soil conservation practices can lead to extreme topsoil erosion, with devastating effects on the land.
  
  
• Washington Post newspaper article: "More Farmers Sowing by Satellite," printed 4 December 2000.
  A story about farmers who are using technology to improve crop yields.
  
• For additional Blight! related links, also see the Event-Based Science Blight! life science site. Click here!

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Landsat Images Courtesy NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Image Processing by Kimberly Casey

Welcome

Event-Based Science Project

Blight! Activity

Field-Testers
Information for teachers interested in testing EBS-based remote-sensing activities

Principal Investigators
Russell G. Wright (EBSII)
Dorothy K. Hall (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Teacher Advisors (MCPS)
Susan Buffington
Nancy Carey
Cynthia Carlson
Elaine Chang
John Leck
Donna Matthews
Frank Weisel

Science and Visualization Advisors(NASA/GSFC)
Kimberly Casey
Jim Foster
Ross Nelson

Student Consultants
(John Poole Middle School, Poolesville, MD)

John Maas
Caitlin McCarthy
Bobby Ouellette
Matt Wolverton
Justin Robillard
Maureen DuVall
Rachel Carr
Kristina Benson
Alexander Eames
Ben Baird
Reuben Goetzl
Alex Kreiser