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  Reviews, 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, 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 Peter Etnoyer, on February 24th, 2009 One comment Organisms, Reviews, Scientist!, Social Sciences atlantis, google earth, Google Ocean, matt damon, yonaguni Having ignored the myriad blog postings about people using Google Earth’s new ocean layer to discover Atlantis, and tracking about 20 different ridiculous stories, I finally had to ask, “What is it with these people?” Don’t they know Atlantis is in the Bahamas? Even Matt Damon knows that. As IF there’s only one Atlantis. . . . → Read More: Another Atlantis discovered on YouTube
By Peter Etnoyer, on February 6th, 2009 Leave a comment Expeditions, Social Sciences 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
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! By Peter Etnoyer, on February 3rd, 2009 3 comments Education, Gadgets & Gear, Organisms 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 2nd, 2009 7 comments Gadgets & Gear, Industry & Government, Reviews, Scientist!, Uncategorized bathymetry, google earth, Google Ocean, Monterey Canyon, saba bank, seafloor The download of Google Earth 5.0 to Mac OS X is painless, as expected. Ocean lovers will be delighted with the improved seafloor topography. It’s something DSN has been anticipating for a long time now. Last year I ran this story describing the need for the new ocean layer and some of the science behind . . . → Read More: How much better is Google Earth’s new seafloor
By Peter Etnoyer, on February 2nd, 2009 2 comments Cephalopods, Gadgets & Gear, Organisms, Reviews adelita, google earth, Google Ocean, j nichols, satellite telemetry, sea turtle, seafloor Deep Sea News “field correspondent” and good friend Wallace J Nichols is posting links to the first real evidence of Google Earth enhancements. Click here to read today’s blog post about the new contribution from Seaturtle.org. Links at the bottom take you to videos that play through the migration track of J’s first tagged . . . → Read More: Google’s Ocean is trickling in
By Peter Etnoyer, on February 2nd, 2009 6 comments Gadgets & Gear, Industry & Government, Reviews, Uncategorized al gore, earth surfer, google earth, Google Ocean Today is the day of a long awaited event in San Francisco, with repercussions for Google Earth users around the globe. How do I know? My professors are not in their office. They’re off hobnobbing in California. Marine scientists are gathering at California Academy of Sciences for the launch of what folks are calling “Google . . . → Read More: Something big is happening
By Peter Etnoyer, on January 23rd, 2009 4 comments Education, Gadgets & Gear google earth, Google Ocean Something fishy is going on at Google. CNET has the drop once again, putting names like Dr. Sylvia Earle and Former Vice-President Al Gore together in the same story with Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, against a backdrop of the new aquarium at California Academy of Science on February 2nd. They’re teasing us, clearly… could . . . → Read More: Anticipation…
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