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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"Google earth"”.
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Machine Learning & Big Data Analyses for Wildfire & Air Pollution Incorporating GIS & Google Earth Engine
… and severe wildfires. This portion employs the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform to navigate its geospatial datasets of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) MYD14A1 V6, MCD19A2 Version 6 level 2, and Sentinel-5 Precursor (Sentinel-5P) to validate fire incidents and determine …
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Flood risk modeling and impact assessment using google earth engine in Mpumalanga province, South Africa
… risk assessment and monitoring framework using Google Earth Engine (GEE) cloud computing platform and multi-source spatial data (Sentinel-1 SAR, Sentinel-2 and CHIRPS). The study aimed to assess flood dynamics in the study area through two main components: a detailed assessment of flood events …
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Variación geográfica de la distribución altitudinal de Kageneckia angustifolia (D.Don): Uso de Google Earth como herramienta de muestreo
… of this species along its latitudinal gradient, Google Earth was used to measure the treeline through a set of transects. Second, with the information of each transect, HOF models were built to estimate the treeline. In third place, through remote sensors, temperature values and continentality …
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Google Earth in the Middle School Geography Classroom: Its Impact on Spatial Literacy and Place Geography Understanding of Students
… to study specifically the phenomenon of using Google Earth as a potentially more useful pedagogical tool to develop spatial literacy than the currently employed methods.</p><p>The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which graphicacy achievement scores of students who were …
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Pastoralist systems of the Roggeveld in the 18th and 19th centuries
… of the infrastructure of pastoralism using Google Earth and begins the process of linking this survey data with refined research on the ground by excavating at one of the sites located on Google Earth.
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Critical Review of Inundation Mapping Procedures for Floodplain Management
… created using two procedures: Terrain Tiles and Google Earth. An analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of each mapping procedure was conducted. The Terrain Tiles procedure has advantages in displaying critical information, such as arrival times and water depths. However, this mapping procedure …
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Classifying Single-thread Rivers: A European perspective
… imagery and digital terrain data: Google Earth. This research stage required the development of rules for identifying, extracting and standardising information from this source for a large sample of river reaches. 221 single-thread river reaches distributed across 75 European rivers …
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Modeling, Visualizing, and Understanding Complex Tectonic Structures on the Surface and in the Sub-Surface
… COLLADA (COLLabrative Design Activity) models in Google Earth and Google Earth Application Programming Interface (API) are used for visualizing and teaching of plate boundary systems. The testing of COLLADA models for geoscience concepts showed positive learning gains. Kinematic models are made to …
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Alps : exploring the intersection of gesture input systems and tangible media
… media. Namely, I created a gesture interface to Google Earth that sends data to a geo-spacial, three-dimensional display called Relief. This thesis is both a demonstration and an attempt to elaborate on the impact of free-hand gesture recognition and the use of tangible media. The project …
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Developing a virtual approach to determine if ecosystem service provision differs between Scottish river corridors with and without nature designations
… used to capture river ecosystem services, the Google Earth River Ecosystem Services (GE RES) tool is developed. This method advances the matrix-based Google Earth technique of Large and Gilvear (2015). Significant advancements built into GE RES which are valuable to the river ecosystem service …
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Visualizing and Understanding Tectonism and Volcanism on Earth and Other Terrestrial Bodies
… modeling, and understanding tectonics on Earth and other celestial bodies. Tectonics is the study of planetary lithospheres and includes impact, plate, plume, cryo- and gravitational mechanisms. This dissertation is concerned with plate tectonics and plate/mantle plume interactions. Plate …
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A study of aquatic sedimentation in Chattanooga, Tennessee, using GIS and remote sensing technology integrated with hydrodynamic and watershed models
… there. The obtained results indicate that using Google Earth Engine (GEE), Landsat satellite can be used to estimate historical turbidity in the Tennessee River. Using field measurements and laboratory analyses the obtained satellite derived turbidity estimation can be converted to SSC, which can …
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Modelling pandemic influenza progression using Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeller (STEM)
… (STEM) and visualize the disease spread on Google Earth. It is done through developing a Poisson disease model plug-in using the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF), a modeling framework and code generation facility for building tools and other applications based on a structured data model. The …
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La città di Bologna e la sua storia: diffusione e condivisione delle conoscenze attraverso Webgis open source e Web Mapping
… and Chameleon) and the Web Mapping services (Google Earth, Google Maps and OpenLayers).
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A Importância do uso de cisternas no Assentamento Oziel Pereira – Remigio PB.
… conducted with families. We used images from Google Earth mapping of tanks. The results show that the cisterns are important social technologies hydro, because even with little feature, you can create better conditions to live in this region, strengthening the dynamics of socio-economic …
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robustraster - A Python Software Package To Lower the Barrier of Entry for Large-Scale Geospatial Analysis
… Notably, cloud-based geospatial APIs like Google Earth Engine (GEE) have emerged as a formidable solution to this problem, offering access to petabytes of satellite imagery and a suite of analytical tools, all while removing the concerns regarding data storage and computational resources. …
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Metodología para la Calibración de Modelos de Transporte de Sedimentos en puertos. Aplicación a la costa del Perú
… hidrográficos, batimétricos y satelitales (e.g. Google Earth Engine, Sentinel-2) de cada zona portuaria y su entorno. Con esta información se calibraron y validaron modelos de transporte de sedimentos, determinando las variaciones morfológicas y estandarizando una metodología aplicable a la costa …
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Waste / Mine: Re Interpreting mans' connection to the landscape through the conservation of a tin mine on Devils Peak
… This led me to question its meaning. A google earth image of the exact site fortuitously captured the assembly of this artefact. The image illustrates its agricultural use, but more interestingly its reveals a series of processes of working upon the landscape. The large seemingly …
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Effect of Earthquake and Human Migration on Land Cover and Mass Wasting from The 2010 Haiti Earthquake
The 2010 earthquake in Haiti displaced millions of people and drastically induced mass wasting. The purpose of this study is to explore comprehensive relationships between population displacement and landslide frequency by comparing land use and land cover (LULC) maps of pre- and post-earthquake. …
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Can NATO's Missile Defence System Protect Bulgarian Territory?
… lead time. Results are visualised in <em>Google Earth</em>. To evaluate the effectiveness of defences, scenarios involving attacks on Bulgarian high-value assets by Iranian missiles - the most probable near-term threat - are considered. Calculations based on publicly available data show …
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