Google Earth For Monitoring the Climate Change

Ups!

Thats the first word that came up from my lips when I received the newsletter form Google Earth.

You know what?

As we have known, Google Earth not only allows you to view satellite and aerial photography, but also contains 3D terrain of the Earth. If you tilt your view while looking at any part of the Earth with mountains or canyons, you will see the terrain in three dimensions. (Make sure you've turned on the terrain layer, otherwise everything will appear flat.)

You can also use the line and polygon tools to draw on the surface of the Earth. You can also use more advanced KML features such as the ability to show time animations to convey more powerful visualizations.

One Google Earth Community member (a 'Bzoltan' from Hungary) recently posted a Google Earth file showing what might happen if you raised the level of water around the world by up to 100 meters. After you download the file , GE will fly to a view over San Francisco. Hit the "Play" button on the time slider (the triangular right-arrow to the right of the slider) to start the animation. Or, just grab the slider and slide it back and forth to see the effects. The animation shows the water rise from 1 to 100 meters. This is a simple water rising model, which is not a scientific method, but it gives you a rough approximation of the impact.

So, for you who are interested in monitoring the trend of our erath condition will be, you can just play with. Once again, it is not scientific method yet, but at lerast you can see how would your earth be if you raise up the water about 100m above the recent condition.

Here is the different preview in GE before and after fill in up the water:

before

after:

GPS, a New Enternainer For Kids

Now again, suprising me a lot, when I got an email from my friend, Mike Sanders who is working at one of Market Survey company in the US.


He wrote me:
Kamila's mom,
Guest whats gonna suprising you? GPS is a new enternainer, here is the report :)

Here is the summary of the report:

The survey of more than 3,000 was conducted in April by Decision Analyst on behalf of U.S. electronics retailer Circuit City Stores Inc. With the summer travel season looming on the horizon, the survey also questioned parents as to what electronics devices were important to take on a family car trip.

Not surprisingly, with entertaining children factored in, GPS navigation fell in importance compared to entertainment devices and mobile phones.

The results clearly spotlight parents priorities in keeping children occupied in the car:

• 98 percent rated a cell phone as very or somewhat important.
• 71 percent rated a portable or in-car DVD player as very or somewhat important.
• 57 percent rated portable video games as very or somewhat important.
• 53 percent rated GPS navigation as very or somewhat important.
• 52 percent rated a notebook computer as very or somewhat important

S o, will it happen here in Indonesia? Educating the people with Map!

Cencus Data in Google Earth

A very sorry to my blog reader, lazy to blog for a quite long time, I am working just around the clock, riding on the wheel never stop, happy to be with my kids arsya and kamila. In this posting I just cut, paste and add a comment adapted from GE Update. Try to do some further study on it, collecting some others reference for it.

A Stanford University PhD student recently gained world-wide Internet fame by publishing an innovative visualization tool called gCensus for showing US census data in Google Earth. Not only that, but he won some free hard drives so he could expand the database to cover more cities and states. Although the availability of many megabytes of census data from the US Government is a great resource, the tools for visualizing the data are limited. Normally you would need an expensive GIS application to visualize the data properly. Imran Haque decided to write some tools to process the data for visualization in Google Earth. He started with just three states (California, Pennsylvania, and Oregon).To try out the application, launch the gCensus web interface. Choose the data source you want to map in the left-hand pane. Next follow the instructions on the right-hand pane to navigate through the application. In the final step, you'll see a link asking you to "Click here to download your map". Click on this and it should load into Google Earth and show you a visualization of the census data you've selected. Read Imran's article at ExtremeTech, and visit his web site for more details (and to watch for the availability of more states).

If we can adapt this study to our schema here, we can reduce some big budget and avoiding the overlapping project among the government department as it happened for longtime.

Need to share with its expert then conclude the next step.