The project is coordinated by Dr. Jimmy McCully through the Research and Curriculum Unit at Mississippi State University. A module for Spatial Information Technology was added to all F-site Technology Discovery labs. Ninth graders in over 100 schools learn basic concepts of remote sensing. A moudule on Remote Sensing in the ninth grade Technology Discovery course. This includes GIS, GPS, correcting data, and image processing of aerial photography, and mapping using the actual school locations.
Students indentify and map features of their county using photography provided by remote sensing.
The maps can be manipulated using image processing to choose colors for ranges within the photo pixels. A course in remote sensing is being offered in two high schools as a science elective. A module using a mapping program is included in the Technology Applications class at the grade ten-twelve level.