Through the nifty little Google Earth plugin you can now be the helmsman of your ships. This ship simulation program is a trip and I expect to be wasting hours of my precious time in the near future. I love firing off the ship’s horn. Maybe this is the way that all the unemployed . . . → Read More: Pilot and Captain Your Own Ship
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By Dr. M, on  June 2nd, 2009  Leave a comment  Books/Media, Google Ocean, Vessels and Equipment  Captain, Google, google earth, Google Inc., Google Ocean, helmsman, pilot, ship, simulation By Peter Etnoyer, on March 27th, 2009 2 comments Education, Gadgets & Gear, Google Ocean, Industry & Government BBC, digital map, Ethiopia, Google, google earth, Google Inc., Google Ocean, google vs microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft Corporation, NavTeq, video map A sense of place. It’s essential to deep-sea exploration. We’re far from land, on a flat horizon, hovering over echosounder output from the seafloor below. We watch a map drawn line by line by line. It takes hours for small features, days for large ones. In time, different things are revealed to different people. Geological . . . → Read More: Clickable maps: Google vs Microsoft
By Dr. M, on March 16th, 2009 One comment Google Ocean bathymetry, Georeference, GIS, Google, Google Inc., Google Maps, Google Ocean, Monterey Canyon [googlemap lat="36.820278951308744" lng="-121.99493408203125" width="500px" height="300px" zoom="9" type="G_SATELLITE_MAP"]Monterey Canyon, Invertebrate Cliff[/googlemap] Another of the new features on this website will be Google Maps. For future posts with georeferencing we will now include a Google Map. To highlight this new feature, I have picked one of my study sites. Invertebrate Cliff is an off-axis canyon in the . . . → Read More: New DSN Feature: Google Maps
By Peter Etnoyer, on February 7th, 2009 4 comments Google Ocean, Megavertebrate, TGIF: Pictures & Movies Google Ocean, loggerhead, migration, sea turtle Adelita the Loggerhead migration with Google Ocean from Wallace J. Nichols on Vimeo Adelita was the first loggerhead turtle tracked from Baja California Sur by J Nichols and Seaturtle.org, and the first satellite tracked animal to swim across an entire ocean…a paradigm shifting event. Now, Adelita’s the first turtle to swim through Google’s Ocean, . . . → Read More: Satellite tracked sea turtle swims in Google Ocean
By Peter Etnoyer, on February 6th, 2009 Leave a comment Archaeology, History, and Art, Expeditions, Google Ocean Challenger Expedition, google earth, Google Ocean, hms challenger We’ve seen over the last week that the new ocean layer in Google Earth 5.0 is a useful tool for visualization and presentation. DSN readers have commented that GE could also be useful for research, if one were to geo-reference scientific literature, for example. This updated REPOST from July 2008 gives an example of . . . → Read More: 19th Century Voyage through Google Earth
By Peter Etnoyer, on February 5th, 2009 6 comments Expeditions, Giant Isopod, Google Ocean alvin, GEBCO, google earth 5.0, Google Ocean, seafloor image, shipwreck Now that you’ve toyed with the new Ocean layer in Google Earth 5.0, and learned to dive below sea level, you’re asking yourself, … what’s next? Where can I go? What can I do? You’ve got the fever, and the only prescription is …. more cowbell ! – REPOST FROM OCTOBER 8, 2008 There’s been . . . → Read More: Pimp your Google Ocean
Google Sightseeing is reporting on some strange phenomena people are seeing in Google Ocean’s database. Check it out. Trawl scars? Lost city of Atlantis? Low resolution bathymetry? You be the judge! Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Google Sightseeing is reporting on some strange phenomena people are seeing in Google Ocean’s database. Check it out. Trawl scars? Lost city of Atlantis? Low resolution bathymetry? You be the… By Peter Etnoyer, on February 3rd, 2009 3 comments Biodiversity, Education, Gadgets & Gear, Google Ocean bbc earth, Bob Ballard, Education, google earth, Google Ocean, National Geographic, planet earth, sylvia earle BBC Planet Earth placard from the new Ocean layer in Google Earth 5.0 Ever since yesterday’s release of Google Earth 5.0, I have been trying to convince myself that playing with the new Ocean layer is part of my job. It seems to be working. I’m a graduate student who occasionally gives talks to high . . . → Read More: Broadcast media’s command performance
By Peter Etnoyer, on February 3rd, 2009 One comment Books/Media, Carnivals & Link Love, Google Ocean j nichols, sea turtles, whales J Nichols blog reminds us not to be fooled by digital imitations of the Earth, cool as they are. Stay in touch with the Real Ocean, where the sea turtles swim and the gray whales sing. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}J Nichols blog reminds us not to be fooled by digital imitations of the Earth, cool as they are. Stay in touch with the Real Ocean, where the sea turtles… By Peter Etnoyer, on February 2nd, 2009 Leave a comment Gadgets & Gear, Google Ocean Google Ocean, Live Blogging, search engine land Search Engine Land writer Danny Sullivan delivers a blow-by-blow overview of a media roll-out as he live blogs the Google Ocean Event at California Academy of Sciences. My favorite quote so far from Sylvia Earle, talking about Google Ocean: “Anyone can discover in a few minutes what took me 50 years to understand.” Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Search Engine Land writer Danny Sullivan delivers a blow-by-blow overview of a media roll-out as he live blogs the Google Ocean Event at California Academy of Sciences. My favorite quote… |
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