GRC NEWS RELEASE 01-001



01-001
For Release: January 4, 2001



Katherine K. Martin
Media Relations Office
216/433-2406
katherine.martin@grc.nasa.gov



Lori J. Rachul
Media Relations Office
216/433-8806
lori.j.rachul@grc.nasa.gov

Native Americans Go High-Tech with New Global Information System 

"Fundamentals of Remote Sensing", a course taught by a geology 
professor at the University of Cincinnati (UC) in Ohio is now 
available at Minnesota's Leech Lake Tribal College (LLTC), thanks to 
a partnership between NASA Glenn Research Center and the OhioView 
Consortium.



Dr. Richard Beck will use a televideo conferencing facility to link up 
with the Geographical Information System (GIS) Laboratory at LLTC in 
Cass Lake, MN. Beck will teach the remote sensing course beginning on 
January 8.



As part of the collaboration, the Native American Remote Sensing Inc. 
(NARSINC), and the Water Resources Office at the Leech Lake 
Reservation will develop a custom GIS with five applications: 
increase the wild rice harvest, maple syrup tapping, fish and 
wildlife management, water resource management, and digitizing maps 
for reservation boundaries.



Glenn's electrical engineering technician, David R. Plumer, is the 
Native American Liaison for the project selected by the NASA Native 
American Advisory Council, an advisory group managed by Glenn's 
Office of Equal Opportunity. Plumer will organize communication 
between the various partners in the project: GRC, UC, NARSINC and 
LLTC.



The OhioView Consortium is an educational outreach program in remote 
sensing that is designed to increase awareness, develop applications 
and decrease costs. Partners include Glenn, the U.S. Geological 
Survey EROS (Earth Resources Observation Systems) Data Center, 
OhioLINK, the Ohio Supercomputer Center, OARnet (Ohio Academic 
Resources Network), NREN (NASA Research and Education Network) and a 
consortium of eight universities in Ohio: Bowling Green State 
University, Ohio University, University of Cincinnati, Kent State 
University, The Ohio State University, Miami University, the 
University of Akron and the University of Toledo.



For more information on the new LLTC course, please visit:



http://www.lltc.org

http://gateway2earth.org/

http://www.narsinc.com/



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