GIS Helps Identify Link between Pesticide Exposure and Parkinson’s Disease
April 22, 2009
…from ScienceCentric.com,
“…Ritz, Costello and colleague Myles Cockburn from the University of Southern California, developed a geographic information system-based tool that estimated human exposure to pesticides applied to agricultural crops. This GIS tool combined land-use maps and pesticide-use reporting data from the state of California. Each pesticide-use record includes the name of the pesticide’s active ingredient, the amount applied, the crop, the acreage of the field, the application method and the date of application.”
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