Resources

Earth from Space: An Astronaut's View of the Home Planet
http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/

Marshall Space Flight Center, which is using remote sensing technology for precision agriculture
http://www1.msfc.nasa.gov/news/

NASA's Earth Systems Enterprises 1999 Factbook
http://www.earth.nasa.gov/visions/app_factbk99/

Investigation References

Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)
http://www.admworld.com

Brown, Lester R. 1987. Sustaining world agriculture. In State of the world&emdash;1987, edited by L.R. Brown et al., 122-138. New York: W.W. Norton.

Brown, Lester R. 1989. Reexamining the world food prospect. In State of the world&emdash;1989, edited by L.R. Brown et al., 41-58. New York: W.W. Norton.

Brown, Lester R. 1999. Feeding nine billion. In State of the world&emdash;1999, edited by L.R. Brown, et al., 115-132. New York: W.W. Norton.

Cargill
http://www.cargill.com

Earth from space: An astronaut's aiew of the home planet
http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/

Eisenberg, Evan. 1989. Back to Eden. Atlantic Monthly, November: 57-89.

Ehrlich, Paul R. et al. 1977. Ecoscience: population, resources, environment. W.H. Freeman and Company.

Hill, J.E., S.R. Roberts, D.M. Brandon, S.C. Scardaci, J.F. Williams and R.G. Mutters. 2000. Rice production in California (3/13). University of California-Davis Agronomy Department. http://agronomy.ucdavis.edu/uccerice/PRODUCT/rpic03.htm

Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program at the University of Kansas. 2000. 1998 Corn yield estimates in Iowa. http://www.kars.ukans.edu/products/iowa.htm

Marshall, Bruce (editor). 1991. The real world: Understanding the modern world through the new geography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

NASA's Earth Systems Enterprises 1999 Factbook
http://www.earth.nasa.gov/visions/app_factbk99/

NASA Marshall News. 1999. As drought-ravaged '99 harvest proceeds, farmers turn to NASA's Marshall Center for 21st century solutions. Nov. 8, 1999. [Marshall Space Flight Center http://www1.msfc.nasa.gov/news/

Seitz, John L. 1995. Global issues: An introduction. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.

Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium. 2000. Aerial crop scouting.
http://www.umac.org/new/stthomas.html

Ward, Barbara. 1979. Progress for a small planet. New York: W.W. Norton.

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