How we can use Google Earth efficiently?
Google is enthusiastic about the product's adoption by professional and amateur users. The scientific community really embraced Google Earth from the start and is a key-user in using it efficiently for it’s professional purposes. The product has only completed three years and experienced a substantial amount of use. Because of its new feature installation i.e. Google Earth Sky, now Google Earth is witnessing more use by the people interested in astronomical information and activities. Google Sketch up feature has made Google Earth popular in the creative-minded people. We can make it more interesting and knowdgeable by using it efficiently.
Following examples will illustrate you how people have used Google Earth for their professional purpose and how Google Earth is helpful to them.
Though not specially designed for scientific use, since Google Earth’s release in June 2005, the program has seen increase in use by geographers, geologists, and archeologists. According to them, the program’s intuitive nature and 3D satellite imagery is eliminating cumbersome research methods and making earth science more accessible to the ordinary people.
Researchers of the Alaska Volcano Observatory made a program that graphically displays volcano threat. Seismologists at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) use the program to show the intensity of post-earthquake quaver.
In San Francisco on 22 Sept, 2005, academy Scientist maps World’s ants with Google Earth. In the past, it took scientists months or years to identify new ant species, since field guides were very less and species descriptions were buried in torn journals. But now, California Academy of Science’s entomologist Dr. Brian Fisher is putting ant identification on the fast Way with the help Google Earth. Fisher has assembled data for numbers of ant species from around the world and availed the information to a Web site, www.antweb.org. From the Antweb site, scientists can download the Google Earth program and plot all the ants known to Antweb on a 3D globe of satellite images. This technology allows people to look up ants by location, than by name.
For example, if a scientist finds an ant in South Africa, they can see South Africa map from Google Earth and decide the ant he/she found has been documented before. Within few days, antweb users will be able to make a virtual guide for any region in Google Earth. Fisher has been so impressed with the help he received from the Google Earth that he named a new species he discovered as Proceratium google in their honor.
The Antweb/Google Earth integration was posted to the Google Earth community site first time on 19 September, 2005. The site has enjoyed a five-star rating by users.
Google Earth has also played a useful role in the wake of last summer's dangerous flooding in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. Within a short time after the hurricane struck, Google Earth had added 8,000 post-disaster aerial photographs of flooded areas taken by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA). The images allowed relief workers to scan areas on the computer and search for passable roads.Google, Google Earth, using Google earth,
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