1. Google Earth: A Public Meeting Place for Diverse Earth System Data Glenn Richard, Stony Brook University

2. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly What’s good about Google Earth? 1.Easy to use 2.Lots of data 3.Base map always there 4.Large user community What’s bad about Google Earth? 1.Lacks the analytical ability of a GIS Tank farm in New Jersey

3. Some Geometries of GE Data Placemarks ~ESRI points Paths ~ESRI polylines Polygons ~ ESRI polygons Ground Overlays ~ESRI rasters Screen Overlays - Usually serves as a legend Photo Overlays 3D Models Eiffel Tower 3D Model created by Google in Google Sketchup

4. KML – Keyhole Markup Language Beowawe Power Plant Beowawe Power Plant Summar y Statistics ]]> -116.6180078756207 40.55517650229375 0 226.1473943623671 2.210892478024477e-011 0.9500232593827314 relativeToGround #msn_geothermal - 116.6172302139466,40.55490949500392,0

5. Placemarks Geothermal Power Facilities placemarks by GAR Links to summary statistics from Geo-Heat Center

6. Helicopter Flight – October 4, 2006 Study of tidal wetlands on South Shore of Long Island Oblique aerial photos geotagged, using GPS and EXIF time data GE Pro can read GPX format

7. Paths Data from http://www.unr.edu/Geothermal/datalist.html Quaternary fault data from Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy Vertical exaggeration of terrain layer set to 3.0 View tilted at 74 o from vertical

8. Polygons Volcanic Ash Beds: Georeferenced original map image in ArcGIS Digitized ash bed boundaries as ESRI shapefile Opened shapefile in Google Earth, saved it as KMZ Original map from http://www.solcomhouse.com/yellowstone.htm Original map

9. Ground Overlays Geothermal favorability overlay from the Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy

10. Strain rate Models for Southern California Map overlays for southern California topography and faults 2.5 million years ago, 1 million years ago, and at present, displayed on Google Earth, using a North American reference frame. Faults 1,000,000 YBP -1000000 -500000 … From “Map Tools for EarthScope Science and Education” Funded by NSF

11. Measuring Things Using the Google Earth ruler to determine the length of the Garlock Fault from its eastern end to Tehachapi (203.50 kilometers), and the displacement of the fault trace that has occurred between 1 million years ago and now in the vicinity of Tehachapi (8.79 kilometers). Timespan of visibility

12. Geotagged Photography and Video Panoramio Gigapixl Gigapan YouTube Gigapixl: Half Dome -119.563980631603 37.7368192419472 944.111136843754 49.3460456808784 84.6781418208252 -2.30590214406105e-014 3862.06629851875 Panoramio: Mono Lake Sunrise YouTube video: Old Faithful

13. Gigapan s Kaibab Trail (Grand Canyon) Enter panorama ]]> -112.091274 36.095424 35 276 90 #panoramaStyle http://gigapan.org/getGeTile.php?id=7&l=$[level]&r=$[y]&c=$[x] -64.2512 64.2512 -26 16.7751 69 26857 8940 upperLeft -112.091274,36.09542400000001,0 sphere Gigapan: Kaibab Trail – Grand Canyon Can rotate the camera’s viewpoint through the scene gigapan.org

14. Google Earth Pro vs Google Earth Free Google Earth Pro can open: GPS Data (GPX format) ESRI Shapefiles (.shp) Also, better print quality for images From Google Earth Pro, save the.shp or GPX data in KMZ format, so Google Earth Free users can open it

15. Tours Start and stop tour through selected object (Folder, for example) If folder contains a collection of placemarks, user will fly to the specified view for each one, in sequence. New York Landscape Regions in Google Earth http://www.bedford.k12.ny.us/flhs/science/geoscience/skluge/dlesege/

16. Google Earth offers a quick means of obtaining aerial imagery for a GIS. Can capture images from Google Earth, and use the gridded image to georeference the non-gridded image. The Grid Flax Pond Tidal Marsh, Long Island

17. Learning about Google Earth: KML Gallery Hurricane Katrina with Time Data by Brian Flood

18. Google Earth Community Forums Source of ideas and data Forum for educators

19. The Geobrowsers Session at AGU 2007: Oral and Interactive Poster Presentations Look for another Geobrowsers session at AGU 2008 From Declan DePaor: Embedding Collada Models in Geobrowser Visualizations: a Powerful Tool for Geological Research and Teaching From Jesse D. Varner: Historical Natural Hazards Data in Google Earth

20. Where should we go from here? Promote the practice of using Google Earth to foster an integrated Earth system perspective. Need to: Identify useful existing datasets Develop new datasets, where needed Identify existing “best practices” in education Develop new educational materials Continue to use other tools