AGU: Education and Human Resources
Session ED23C: The Use of Internet-Based Virtual Globes in the Earth Sciences I

Conveners: Matt Nolan, John E. Bailey
 
Themes: Virtual Globe Tools; Uses of KML  (Click on image or title for abstract and more information on each presentation)

 

Day: Tue     Date: 12 Dec     Time: 13:40     Location: MCS 301     Presentations: Oral

Digital Earth for Earth Sciences and Public Education

Timothy W. Foresman

International Center for Remote Sensing Education, Baltimore, MD 21227, USA


Day: Tue     Date: 12 Dec     Time: 13:55
NASA World Wind, Open Source 4D Geospatial Visualization Platform: *.NET & Java* for EDUCATION

Patrick Hogan, Frank Kuehnel

NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA  94035  USA


Day: Tue     Date: 12 Dec     Time: 14:10
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

Day: Tue     Date: 12 Dec     Time: 14:25
Global Warming and the Arctic in 3D: A Virtual Globe for Outreach

William F Manley

University of Colorado, INSTAAR, Boulder, CO 80309-0450, United States

Day: Tue     Date: 12 Dec     Time: 14:40
Interactive Volcano Studies and Education Using Virtual Globes

Jonathan Dehn 1, John E Bailey 2, Peter Webley 2

1Alaska Volcano Observatory, Geophysical Institute UNiversity of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7320, United States
2Arctic Region Super Computing Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6020, United States

Day: Tue     Date: 12 Dec     Time: 14:55
Evolving Capabilities for Virtual Globes

Alan Glennon

Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States

Day: Tue     Date: 12 Dec     Time: 15:10
Google Maps and Google Earth Integration Using KML

Brandon Badger

Google Inc., 1585 Charleston Road, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States

Day: Tue     Date: 12 Dec     Time: 15:25
Exploring Large Marine Datasets Using an Interactive Website and Google Earth

Jonathan D Blower, Daniel Bretherton, Keith Haines, Chunlei Liu, Adit Santokhee

Reading e-Science Centre, University of Reading, ESSC, Harry Pitt Building, 3 Earley Gate, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AL, United Kingdom

 

 

AGU: Earth and Space Science Informatics
Session IN33A: Geoscience Applications in Virtual Globes I
Conveners: John E. Bailey, Jonathan Dehn, Luke Blair

Themes: Virtual Globe Tools; Uses of KML   (Click on image or title for abstract and more information on each presentation)


Day: Wed     Date: 13 Dec     Time: 13:40     Location: Moscone West, Level 2     Presentations: Poster/Demo
Visualizing Scientific Data Using Keyhole Markup Language (KML)

Lovro Valcic 1, John E Bailey 1,2, Jonathan Dehn 1

1Alaska Volcano Observatory, Geophysical Institute, 903 Koyukuk Drive, Fairbanks, AK 99775, United States
2Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, 909 Koyukuk Drive, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99775, United States

Day: Wed     Date: 13 Dec     Time: 13:40 

Monitoring Volcanic Eruptions Using Satellite Data in the North Pacific Region

Clive Horwood 1, Ken G Dean 2, Jonathan Dehn 2, John E Bailey 3

1Praxis Publishing Ltd, The White House, Church Lane, Eastergate, Chichester, West Sussex PO20 3UR, United Kingdom
2Alaska Volcano Observatory, Geophysical Institute, 903 Koyukuk Drive,  Fairbanks, AK 99775, United States
3Arctic Region Supercomputing Center , 909 Koyukuk Drive, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, United States


Day: Wed     Date: 13 Dec     Time: 13:40 

Presenting Big Data in Google Earth with KML

Bent Hagemark

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


Day: Wed     Date: 13 Dec     Time: 13:40
CAG - computer-aid-georeferencing, or rapid sharing, restructuring and presentation of environmental data using remote-server georeferencing for the GE clients. Educational and scientific implications.

Valery V Hronusov

Perm State University, Gencel St., 4, Perm 614900, Russian Federation

Day: Wed     Date: 13 Dec     Time: 13:40
Integrating Live Access Server into Google Earth

Jing Yang Li 1, Roland Schweitzer 2, Steve Hankin 3, Kevin O'Brien 4

1Macrostaff, Inc., 11711 SE 8th St, Bellevue, WA 98005, United States
2Weathertop Consulting, LLC, 2802 Cinarron Ct., College Station, TX 77845, United States
3NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105, United States
4JISAO/University of Washington, Box 354235 University of Washington , Seattle, WA 98195, United States

 

Day: Wed     Date: 13 Dec     Time: 13:40
A Portal Service of Earth Observation Data via Google Earth

Eizen Kimura 1, Ken T. Murata 2, Satoshi Ishikura 3, Ryosuke Nakamura 4, Satoru Suzuki 5, Hisato Iwata 5, Masafumi Hirahara 6, Iku Shinohara 7, Yasumasa Kasaba 7, Takuya Kubo 3

1Department of Medical Informatics Social Medicine and Medical Informatics, Medical School of Ehime University, Shitsukawa, Toon, Ehime 791-02, Japan
2Center for Information Technology, Ehime University, 3 Bunkyo-cho Matsuyama, Ehime 790-8577, Japan
3Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ehime University, 3 Bunkyo-cho Matsuyama, Ehime 790-8577, Japan
4Grid Technology Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan
5Center for Marine Environmental Studies, Ehime University, 3 Bunkyo-cho Matsuyama, Ehime 790-8577, Japan
6Department of Physics, Rikkyo University, 3-34-1 Nishi-ikebukuro, Toyoshima-ku, Tokyo 171-8501, Japan
7Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Yuyadai 3-1-1, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229-8510, Japan

Day: Wed     Date: 13 Dec     Time: 13:40
Virtual Globes and Glacier Research: Integrating research, collaboration, logistics, data archival, and outreach into a single tool

Matt Nolan

University of Alaska Fairbanks, 525 Duckering Bldg, Fairbanks, AK 99775, United States

Day: Wed     Date: 13 Dec     Time: 13:40
USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Survey Data in Google Earth

Carol Reiss, Clint Steele, Alex Ma, John Chin

US Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Rd.MS 999, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States

Day: Wed     Date: 13 Dec     Time: 13:40
Interactive web-based Earth visualization telling the earth science story

Chuck Stein

GeoFusion, Inc., 440 Ben's Way, Watsonville, CA 95076, United States

Day: Wed     Date: 13 Dec     Time: 13:40
Interactive Mapping on Virtual Terrain Models Using RIMS (Real-time, Interactive Mapping System)

Tony Bernardin 1, Eric Cowgill 2, Ryan D. Gold 2, Bernd Hamann 1, Oliver Kreylos 1, Alfred Schmitt 3

1Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization (IDAV), Department of Computer Science University of California, Davis One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616, United States
2Department of Geology University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616, United States
3Institut fur Beitriebs- und Dialogsysteme (IBDS), Fakultat fur Informatik Universitat Karlsruhe Kaiserstrae 12, Karlsruhe 76131, Germany

Day: Wed     Date: 13 Dec     Time: 13:40
Google Earth Views of Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Analysis Pilot Study, Seaside, Oregon

Florence L Wong 1, Angie J Venturato 2, Eric L Geist 1

1U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, MS 999, Menlo Park, CA 94025
2Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington, Box 354235, Seattle, WA 98115

Day: Wed     Date: 13 Dec     Time: 13:40
NASA World Wind, Open Source 4D Geospatial Visualization Platform: *.NET & Java*

Patrick Hogan, Joseph Coughlan

NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA  94035  USA

 

 

 

AGU: Education and Human Resources
Session ED43A: The Use of Internet-Based Virtual Globes in the Earth Sciences II

Conveners: Matt Nolan, John E. Bailey
 
Themes: Virtual Globe Tools; Uses of KML  (Click on image or title for abstract and more information on each presentation)
 

Day: Thu     Date: 14 Dec     Time: 13:40     Location: Moscone West, Level 2     Presentations: Posters

Windows on Earth - Virtual Globes for Earth Science Education

Daniel Barstow

TERC, Inc., 2067 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02140, United States

Day: Thu     Date: 14 Dec     Time: 13:40
EarthSLOT: A case-study on serving your own virtual globe for academic purposes

Matt Nolan, Peter Prokein

University of Alaska Fairbanks, 525 Duckering Bldg, Fairbanks, AK 99775-5860, United States

Day: Thu     Date: 14 Dec     Time: 13:40
Use of Virtual Globes Resources in Periglacial and Climatic Geomorphology: Blockfield Elevation Gradients in the Appalachian Mountains

Frederick E Nelson 1, Kim J Park Nelson 2, Michael T Walegur 1

1Department of Geography, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, United States
2Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States

Day: Thu     Date: 14 Dec     Time: 13:40
Visualizing Glaciers and Sea Ice via Google Earth

Lisa M Ballagh, Florence Fetterer, Terry M Haran, Kara Pharris

National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, 449 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309, United States

Day: Thu     Date: 14 Dec     Time: 13:40
MARs Tools for Interactive ANalysis (MARTIAN): Google Maps Tools for Visual Exploration of Geophysical Modeling on Mars

Lada L Dimitrova 1, Mark Haines 2, William E. Holt 1, Richard A. Schultz 3, Glenn Richard 4, A. John Haines 5

1Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-2100, United States
2Robinson College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9AN, United Kingdom
3Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557-0138, United States
4Mineral Physics Institute, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook 11794-2100, United States
5Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, United Kingdom

Day: Thu     Date: 14 Dec     Time: 13:40
Building a Sense of Scale and Geographic Context: Virtual Field Trips Created With Google Earth and QuickTime Virtual Reality (QTVR)

Ronald C. Schott

Fort Hays State University Geosciences Dept., 600 Park St., Hays, KS 67601, United States

Day: Thu     Date: 14 Dec     Time: 13:40
Measuring Magnetic Declination With Compass, GPS and Virtual Globes

William P. O'Brien Jr.

Physics Department Southwestern University, 1001 East University Avenue, Georgetown, TX 78626, United States

Day: Thu     Date: 14 Dec     Time: 13:40


IPY Public Outreach Using Virtual Globes: A prototype example of interactive and non-interactive tools based on McCall Glacier research


Peter Prokein, Matt Nolan

University of Alaska Fairbanks, P.O. Box 755860, Fairbanks, AK 99775, United States


Day: Thu     Date: 14 Dec     Time: 13:40
Engaging Middle School Students with Google Earth Technology to Analyze Ocean Cores as Evidence for Sea Floor Spreading

Tavia Prouhet 1, Jerry Cook 2

1Department of Geography, College of Geosciences, Texas A&M University, 810 O&M Building, College Station, TX 77843-3147, United States
2Phoenix Country Day School, 4241 East Mandan, Phoenix, AZ 85044, United States

 

 

AGU: Earth and Space Science Informatics
Session IN43A: Geoscience Applications in Virtual Globes II
Conveners: John E. Bailey, Jonathan Dehn, Luke Blair

Themes:
Virtual Globe Tools; Uses of KML  (Click on image or title for abstract and more information on each presentation)


Day: Thu     Date: 14 Dec     Time: 13:40     Location: Moscone West, Level 2     Presentations: Poster/Demo
Visualization of Four Dimensional Data on Virtual Globes

Ross Swick, John Maurer, Vince Troisi, I-Pin Wang

National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, 449 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309, United States

Day: Thu     Date: 14 Dec     Time: 13:40
Visualizing Earth's Erupting Volcanoes and Wildfires: Seven Years of Data From the Earth Observing Mission

Robert Wright, Eric Pilger, Luke P Flynn, Andrew JL Harris

Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawaii, 1680 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, United States

Day: Thu     Date: 14 Dec     Time: 13:40
Serving Bay Area Geologic Hazard Information in Google Earth KML; a Network-Link Approach

James Luke Blair, Marco Ticci

USGS, 345 Middlefield Rd, Mail Stop 977, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States

Day: Thu     Date: 14 Dec     Time: 13:40
Sharing Earth Sciences Data With the World Using Google Earth

Rebecca Moore

Google, Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Building 45, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States

Day: Thu     Date: 14 Dec     Time: 13:40
Volcano Monitoring Using Google Earth

John E Bailey 1,2, Jonathan Dehn 2, Peter Webley 1,2, Ray Skoog 2

1Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, 909 Koyukuk Drive, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99775, United States
2Alaska Volcano Observatory, Geophysical institute, 903 Koyukuk Drive, Fairbanks, AK 99775, United States

Day: Thu     Date: 14 Dec     Time: 13:40
Three Dimensional Ash Dispersion Modeling within Google Earth : Past Eruptions and Operational Monitoring

Peter W Webley 1,2, John E Bailey 1,2, Ken Dean 2, Jon Dehn 2

1Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, 909 Koyukuk Drive, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99775, United States
2Alaska Volcano Observatory, Geophysical institute, 903 Koyukuk Drive, Fairbanks, AK 99775, United States

Day: Thu     Date: 14 Dec     Time: 13:40
Smithsonian Volcano Data on Google Earth

Edward Venzke, Lee Siebert, James F. Luhr

Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program, NMNH, MRC-119, Washington, DC 20013-7012, United States

Day: Thu     Date: 14 Dec     Time: 13:40
Using Google Maps to Access USGS Volcano Hazards Information

Dina Y Venezky 1, Seth Snedigar 2, Marianne Guffanti 3, John E Bailey 4, Brita Graham Wall 1

1U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, MS 910, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States
2Alaska Volcano Observatory, DGGS, 3354 College Road, Fairbanks, AK 99709, United States
3U.S. Geological Survey, 926-A National Center, Reston, VA 20192, United States
4Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, 909 Koyukuk Dr, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99775, United States

Day: Thu     Date: 14 Dec     Time: 13:40
Utilization of the Google Maps API in WebPages

Doug Ricket

Google Inc., 1585 Charleston Road, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States

Day: Thu     Date: 14 Dec     Time: 13:40
Using Google Earth in Marine Research and Operational Decision Support

Jonathan D Blower 1, Daniel Bretherton 1, Keith Haines 1, Chunlei Liu 1, Chris Rawlings 2, Adit Santokhee 1, Ian Smith 2

1Reading e-Science Centre, University of Reading, ESSC, Harry Pitt Building, 3 Earley Gate, Whiteknights, Reading OX14 5DJ, United Kingdom
2BMT Cordah Ltd, Grove House, Meridians Cross, Ocean Village, Southampton SO14 3TJ, United Kingdom

Day: Thu     Date: 14 Dec     Time: 13:40
Visualizing the NSF and IPY Arctic Research Databases using Virtual Globes

Peter Prokein, Matt Nolan

University of Alaska Fairbanks, P.O. Box 755860, Fairbanks, AK 99775, United States