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Predicting Invasions from Satellite
Eye in the sky peers downward to identify and predict invasive species movements
The Scientist 2004, 18(17):24
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While aerospace engineers at NASA's Goddard Laboratories, northeast of Washington, DC, look down from the heavens, ecologists at a neighboring United States Geological Survey (USGS) have a closer view. Scientists from these disparate fields, ecology and aerospace, have begun collaborating in hopes of stemming a huge and ever-growing invasive species problem, one estimated to cost $120 billion per year in the United States alone.
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