A Guide to how Google Earth can be Used Within the Earth Science Community.

Bruno Bowden

Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States

Introduction to how Google acquires and processes imagery. Creating your own data within Earth or converting it from other formats. Presenting data and sharing it publicly online. Topics will include: BASE IMAGERY: resolution; high resolution coverage; sources/frequency of acquisition; legal compliance IMAGE TILES: methods of tessellation; methods/thoughts on color matching & "checkered" appearance of base imagery DATA SHARING: thoughts/ideas/plans for rendering WMS data natively, support of third party formats TOOLS: current plans/thoughts for more advanced mapping/analysis tools in GE.

URLs:
http://earth.google.com/
http://earth.google.com/showcase/