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Atta Texana: A View Underground
URL: http://www-viz.tamu.edu/faculty/lurleen/main/attatunnel/

Description:
This project "maps tunnels and chambers of a vast leafcutter ant colony. ... The system ... is nondestructive to the ants and is the first time [ground penetrating radar] GPR has been used to map a living ant colony." Provides an abstract, project overview, slide show of the process, tunnel animation, and movies showing GPR to 3-D translation. From a visualization sciences professor at Texas A&M University.

LII Topics: Ants, Insects & Arachnids

Author:
LaFayette, Carol

LII Database Information:
Record 26779 created by Jennifer English on 08/25/2008
Last modification on 08/26/2008
Published: 09/03/2008  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/26779

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