There has been a growing interest in the potential of Google Earth for scientific inquiries, and our previous paper (Al-Abdulrazzak and Pauly, 2014. Managing fisheries from space: Google Earth improves estimates of distant fish catches. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 71: 450–454) on weirs and their catch in the Persian Gulf is a case in point. Garibaldi et al. (2014. Comment on: “Managing fish...

Visualization using Google Earth is an effective way of presenting geographically linked data. The GEW project shows how university administrators, particularly the admissions, alumni and development offices can deploy data they already have to enhance resource allocation in their recruiting and fundraising efforts. GEW provides an administrative interface for inputting spreadsheet data and a v...

Spatial OLAP (SOLAP) systems do not completely integrate visualization, interaction and analysis functionalities of Geographic Information Systems. In this paper, we propose a flexible Web SOLAP tool, GoOlap, which combines OLAP and Geovisualization functionalities through the integration of the geobrowser Google Earth and the OLAP tool Mondrian/JPivot. Google Earth enriches spatio-multidimensi...

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...

Maps are used to track diseases and illustrate the social context of health problems. However, commercial mapping software requires special training. This article illustrates how nonspecialists used Google Earth, a free program, to create community maps. The Bronx, New York, is characterized by high levels of obesity and diabetes. Residents and medical students measured the variety and quality ...

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...

BACKGROUND Physical activity is an important determinant of health. Walking is the most common physical activity performed by adults and the presence of sidewalks along roads is a determinant of walking. Geographic information systems (GIS) can be used to measure sidewalks; however, GIS sidewalk data are difficult to access. The purpose of this study was to present a new GIS method for measurin...

ATLAS is a modeling language that allows one to define a static view of a city section for simulating traffic in an area. By using ATLAS TSC, an intermediary compiler, and CD++, a Cell-DEVS system, traffic simulations may be run. The outputs of the simulation are a collection of individual cell-space simulation results that are difficult to analyze as a whole. This problem is solved by using GA...