Bringing space technology to the farm. (FYI News & Notes).
The U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama is celebrating the success of its first major precision agriculture workshop for 2002. The workshop was held Jan. 22-23, and introduced 25 farmers and agribusiness professionals to tools such as the Global Positioning System (GPS), Yield Mapping, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and Remote Sensing. These are technologies pioneered and utilized by the U.S. Space Program that farmers can now implement every day on their farms. The Precision Agriculture Workshop series is a collaboration between The U.S. Space & Rocket Center, the USDA and Auburn University Auburn University, main campus at Auburn, Ala.; land-grant and state supported; opened 1859 as East Alabama Male College, reorganized 1872 as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama; became coeducational 1892; renamed Alabama Polytechnic Institute 1899, Auburn Univ. 1960. It has technical, engineering, and architectural schools as well as a liberal arts college and a graduate school..
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