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Google Earth for Digital Earth Teaching and Learning

Discover how to use Google Earth for interactive satellite imagery, accessing vast amounts of information on placemarks, measuring distance and elevation, and customizing overlays. Explore various data sources and applications in geoscience education.

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Google Earth for Digital Earth Teaching and Learning

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  1. Google Earthfor Digital Earth Teaching and Learning fqi@kean.edu Feng Qi , Department of Geology & Meteorology Kean University

  2. What is Google Earth Google Earth Interface Watchung Mountains Newark in 3D

  3. How to obtain a copy Download free version: http://earth.google.com/ Plus version ($20)—too bad, discontinued : - GPS device support - faster performance - import spreadsheets - higher resolution printing Pro version ($400): - GIS data import, etc.

  4. Google Earth Functions • Interactive view satellite (aerial) images over topography (historical images V.5) • Vast amount of information on Placemarks accessible online • Measure distance, elevation, position • Customize: overlay your own image or map or GIS data (for GIS data, with pro version) • New with Google Earth 5: Ocean, Mars, historical images.

  5. What you can do with it • See the past • Map the current • Model the future

  6. Google Earth Guides/Tutorials Click links below to access the corresponding websites: • Google Earth Virtual Tour • Google Earth users guide • How Google Earth works • Google Earth Manual for Earth Science Teachers (you can also request a copy via email)

  7. Data Sources Click the following links to connect to the online data resources: Google Earth Community Forums Google Earth Hacks Google Ocean Google Earth Explorer Google Sightseeing

  8. Useful Data Sets • Some Google Earth files downloaded from the websites mentioned on the previous page and cover the following topics: • Real time earthquakes, global oil consumption, and many climate and weather characteristics • Other data sets that can be found online: • Current world volcanoes:http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/171925/page/0/vc/1 • US Census data by state by category: • http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/census-data-in-google-earth/ • USGS Stream flow kml (can build real time streamflow kml): • http://water.usgs.gov/waterwatch/?m=real&w=kml • NRCS Water supply forecast data: • http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/wsf/earth/index.html

  9. Free Tools to support Google Earth • Click links to get access to the corresponding websites: • GPS visualizer: convert GPS data to kml • also with Coloring and resizing functions! • Earth-plot, Earth-paint, Earth-shape: tools to create plot, image, contour layers in GE

  10. Google Earth Applications in GeoScience Education • Landscape Visualization • Virtual field trips/pre-field trip study • Measurement • Spatial patterns and relationships • Topographic Map Interpretation • Help Decision-making with multiple data layers • …

  11. Google Earth Applications-cases • ‘Google Earth in the classroom’ by Alan Roger • ‘Teaching with GPS and Google Earth’ by Juicy Geography • ‘Google Earth map analysis’ by Aida Awad • A virtual tour or ‘pre-lab’ to prepare for a field trip by Erica Cline • Modeling sea level change with google earth on the gold coast: • http://www.juicygeography.co.uk/sealevel

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