Methodological Training in Remote Sensing and Computerized Mapping of Andean Agro-Ecosystems

该奖项将允许北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校的一名人类学家接受地理信息系统和遥感方面的技术培训。这项培训将用来帮助分析在秘鲁安第斯山脉的两个社区收集的农业、生态和经济方面的信息。这项研究试图了解农民群体如何利用田地分散、储存和交换等策略来缓冲干旱、霜冻和作物病虫害造成的生产风险。这项奖励将允许调查员分析已有但他没有接受过使用培训的区域环境变化数据。这项培训活动所支持的研究很重要，因为对农民生存战略的理解对于美国和拥有大量农民人口的社会之间的交易至关重要。培训本身对增加社会科学家的技术专长也很有价值。

This award will allow an anthropologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to receive technical training in geographic information systems and remote sensing. This training will be used to help analyze information gathered about agriculture, ecology and economics in two communities in the Peruvian Andes. The research seeks to understand how peasant populations use strategies such as field dispersion, storage and exchange to buffer production risk due to drought, frost and crop pests. This award will allow the investigator to analyze data on regional environmental variation that has been available but that he was not trained to use. The research that this training activity supports is important because the understanding of peasant survival strategies is critical to the dealings between the U.S. and societies which have large peasant populations. The training is also valuable in itself to increase the technical expertise of social scientists.