Scientific uses of Google earth
Popular science gives you unique collection of various kinds of articles in which you will see various kinds of scientific visualizations occupying the environment making use of Google earth. A very famous mainstream magazine is providing visibility for visualizations with Google earth, which are not stupid scenes find in the satellite photos, but rather than show us that we are able to share significant environmental and scientific information and made it becomes meaningful.
Out of these visualizations, lots of visualizations are presented in the American Geophysical Union. Here you will find rapid summary of all the five visualizations along with various types of links for respective KML files, and the famous science article. You can also find the links for earlier GEB stories on visualizations.
Storm trooper: NASA is making use of Google earth for tracking scientific flights into big tropical storms in actual-time with their RTMM software. In Marshall Space Flight center of NASA Michael Goodman tells us that Google earth allows the planners on the ground for following flights into storms and Google earth also helps direct them for main areas of interest.
Emotion Map: There is one person who is telling the story of producing 3D emotion map within Google earth. In Greenwich England, he places galvanic response measuring tools on wrists of various kinds of volunteers and makes use of it for measuring their emotions reactions while they moved around town. They also have PDAS for recording whatever they are watching. In Google earth, the resulting visualization is actually very cool. You will also find link for Greenwhich emotion map. In addition, when you will visit one site called Biomapping.net you will get the idea that there are various kinds of other cities which are getting these emotion maps.
Article Eye: This kind of article gives you information about the excellent work that is done by the NSIDC, which has created an excellent collection of Google earth KML files exemplifying their scientific results observing ice and snow in the world. Famous science has interviewed Walt Meir who tells us about their numerous visualizations and he also tells us that why these visualizations are significant for scientists and why these visualizations are important to communicate with the public.
Spread of Bird Flu: Daniel Janies, who is a professor of zoology in biomedical informatics department, tells us about his visualization with Google earth for the purpose of showing the spread of H5N1 avian-flu virus. They have one map, which shows us mutation maps of the flu, and they are also track 1000 variations of the flu and can show the information having seasonal differences. If you want to get the detail information about their project, you can visit to their website and you will also get the link for mutation map.
Volcano tracker: Peter Webley has designed some tools for helping track the ash plumes from volcanoes in the Alaskan Ring of fire. Due to the lethal accident of a commercial airliner that flew into ash plume, air traffic controllers are depended in the tools which are developed by peter for visualizing ash plumes in Google earth in three dimension so that they can make flights away from getting danger.
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