GIS Helps Identify Link between Pesticide Exposure and Parkinson’s Disease

/ Matt Artz

…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.”