Google Earth Data Layers

• Tides and currents, NOAA: http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/googleearth.shtml, including
  • Sea level trends
  • Tide predictions from the Google Earth screen
• Earthquakes and plate boundaries, USGS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/catalogs/
• Volcanoes: www.volcano.si.edu/ge/gvp_layer.kmz
• USGS, multiple files: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/kml.php
• Piracy, NGA ASAM: http://msi.nga.mil/NGAPortal/MSI.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=msi_portal_page_65 (download and unzip and open in Google Earth)
• Hurricanes: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gis/
• Forest File Data: http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/googleearth.php
• Drought: http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/dmshps_archive.htm   (also has shapefiles)
• Snow analysis: http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/earth/
• European soils: http://eusoils.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ESDB_Archive/ESDBv3/googleearth/index.cfm
• Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (worldwide, monthly): http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/m/project/planetary/kml/ndvi.kmz
• Tornadoes:
  • http://www.srh.noaa.gov/gis/kml/TIMS/TIMS.kml
• month: www.srh.noaa.gov/gis/kml/TIMS/months_tor.kmz

31 Aug Exercise during class period. Delivered in the course drop box by Friday 7 September.

1. Make a PPT show with 6 slides.
2. 3 slides will be using one of the sites above, with two showing screen captures, and the third a short discussion of what the KML files allow.  To get a screen capture of the map from Google Earth, use Edit, Copy Image.
3. The last 3 slides will be for another site not on the list above that you found with an internet search (combine a geographic term with KML or KMZ, with two screen captures and a short discussion.