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dan
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 Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:07 am Post subject: Scientist help National Guard predict where pot may be grown |
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Here's some researcher's, one with professional interest that includes religion, helping the Government bust cannabis growers by predicting where they will most likely grow.
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/506698/
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Geographers Use GIS Technology to Go One Up in the War on Drugs
Two West Virginia University geographers are attempting to go one up in the war on drugs by doing just that. Dr. Trevor Harris and Dr. Briane Turley are using known data about marijuana sites across the Mountain State – then applying Geographic Information System (GIS) technology and fine-tuning it, to project those areas favorable for growing the plant that began its life in the tropics.
GIS is an aerial photograph times 10 or 20.
The technology provides researchers with a three-dimensional view of a targeted site, offering electronic data that takes in everything from the height and slope of mountains and valleys to the mapping of streets and highways.
Researchers are able to electronically “layer” in bits of data, making for a comprehensive study of a site that goes well beyond geography and aerial surveillance.
Harris and Turley’s GIS work was bolstered recently with a $221,000 research grant from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Georgia Tech, like WVU, is part of a federal drug-fighting consortium sponsored by the National Guard Bureau’s Counter Drug Program, a sweeping, federal effort to rid the U.S. of illegal drugs.
Call it a digital leveling of the playing field, said Harris, a soft-spoken
Britisher who heads the University’s Department of Geology and Geography and is co-director of the State GIS Technical Center.
“We’re looking at new ways to target those areas that growers might decide to use,” Harris said.
In other words, he said, not where the drugs are – but where they aren’t.
Not yet.
Places, Turley seconded, that will most likely provide future yields of the crops that will be turned into illegal contraband.
“We’re working on gridding out the places that are attractive to growers just because the conditions are right,” said Turley, a two-time Fullbright scholar and geography professor whose professional interests range from rights-of-way to religion. |
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