Google Earth and Google Fusion Tables in support of time-critical collaboration: Mapping the deepwater horizon oil spill with the AVIRIS airborne spectrometer |
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Authors: | Eliza S Bradley Dar A Roberts Philip E Dennison Robert O Green Michael Eastwood Sarah R Lundeen Ian B McCubbin Ira Leifer |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA;(2) Department of Geography and Center for Natural and Technological Hazards, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA;(3) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA;(4) Desert Research Institute, Storm Peak Laboratory, Steamboat Springs, CO 80488, USA;(5) Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA |
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Abstract: | Web interfaces have made remote sensing image resources more accessible and interactive. However, many web-based and Digital
Earth opportunities for remote sensing have not yet been fully explored and could greatly facilitate scientific collaboration.
In many cases, these resources can augment traditional proprietary software packages, which can have limited flexibility,
spatiotemporal controls, and data synthesis abilities. In this paper, we discuss how web services and Google Earth were used
for time-critical geovisualizations of the NASA Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) Deepwater Horizon
oil spill imaging campaign. In particular, we describe how (1) AVIRIS Google Earth products were used to visualize the spatial
and temporal characteristics of the campaign’s image acquisitions, critically needed for flight planning, (2) the Google Fusion
Table cloud-based service was applied to create a highly-interactive image archive and mapping display, and (3) the Google
Fusion Table API was utilized to create a flexible PHP-based interface for metadata creation and as the basis for an interactive
data catalog. Although there are other possible software and programming approaches to these activities, we highlight freely-accessible
and flexible solutions and bring attention to the newly introduced Google Fusion Tables as a collaborative scientific platform. |
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