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Google Earth for Environmental Research
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on Tuesday August 14, @05:19PM
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from the harmony-through-spatial-data dept.
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A couple of posts at Google Earth Blog talk about the use of Google Earth for sharing and visualing scientific environmental data. The Ocean Drilling Database in Google Earth shows colour-coded placemarks representing boreholes of different drilling programs, with links to attribute information and reports. A second post talks about a special issue of Popular Science on the Future of the Environment in Google Earth. Both of these examples demostrate possibilities for using GE to integrate scientific research. If scientific journals required a subission of a KML file with research manuscripts, a global view of research activities would quickly emerge, enabling collaborations and greater synthesis of research results.
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