Google Earth is becoming a popular browser for online geographic-related data and information. It integrates satellite imagery, aerial photography, digital map data, and social-economic data to make a virtual three dimensional interactive template of our living planate. The Keyhole Markup Language, promoted by Google Inc., offers easy and convenient interfaces for people publishing, sharing and...

The technologies of database management systems and their related spatial extension are in constant advance and are indispensable tools in the research area of GIS. This work presents the integration of Oracle Spatial with Google Earth in order to create a WWW application that was created to disseminate information provided from the project of the inventory of the forests from the Minas Gerais ...

Three-dimensional visualisations are an interesting method for representing model outcomes. But most visualisation techniques require expensive software, and a lot of time to create them. When a large set of visualisations is needed, or when the visualisations need to be adapted frequently, a faster and more flexible method is needed. The first step of the proposed model is to create the 3D ele...

background: the food hygiene and its distribution places are very important. tourists go to the places that provide them with enough assurance, trust and security. in this situation, providing proper services and appliances like food distributing places with appropriate environmental health condition is effective in attracting their interest. the objective of this research is evaluating the env...

1 Center for Geospatial Information, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1068 Xueyuan Avenue, Shenzhen University Town, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China; E-Mail: [email protected] 2 School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, 195 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA 3 Department of Geography, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant,...

By linking ecological theory with freely-available Google Earth satellite imagery, landscape-scale footprints of behavioural interactions between predators and prey can be observed remotely. A Google Earth image survey of the lagoon habitat at Heron Island within Australia's Great Barrier Reef revealed distinct halo patterns within algal beds surrounding patch reefs. Ground truth surveys confir...