With Google Earth being widely used by the general public and professionals, Virtual Globes are revolutionizing the way in which scientists conduct their research and the general public uses geospatial-related data and information. NASA Goddard Earth Science Data and Information Service Center (GES DISC) developed a service-oriented online scientific data analysis system to provide customable o...

Earth system science has changed rapidly due to global environmental changes and the advent of observation technology. Therefore, new tools are required monitor, measure, analyze, evaluate, model data. Google (GE) was officially launched by in 2005 as a ”geobrowser”, Engine (GEE) released 2010 cloud computing platform with substantial computational capabilities. The use these two or platforms v...

Using geographical information systems (GIS) has been of great interest lately. A lot of GIS applications are being introduced to regular and noncomputer-expert people through their everyday used machines such as cars (GPS), mobile (location systems), Internet (locating systems and direction guiders), and others. ”Google Earth,” a free online application, is one of those online geographical sys...

A speech of then-Vice President Al Gore in 1998 created a vision for a Digital Earth, and played a role in stimulating the development of a first generation of virtual globes, typified by Google Earth, that achieved many but not all the elements of this vision. The technical achievements of Google Earth, and the functionality of this first generation of virtual globes, are reviewed against the ...

The widely spread Asian dust over East Asia has significant effects on the climate change and fine dust particles in the atmosphere have harmful influence on our health. It is, therefore, important to understand when and where sand dust particles were released and through which paths they were transported to other areas. However, it is difficult to show the movement of 3D objects on the global ...