google earth Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 07 Feb 2014 21:04:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Google Earth Displays Global Warming Values Thanks to British Researchers https://www.greenoptimistic.com/google-earth-displays-global-warming-values-thanks-british-researchers-20140207/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/google-earth-displays-global-warming-values-thanks-british-researchers-20140207/#respond Fri, 07 Feb 2014 21:04:05 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=45730 Climatologists are now more than ever talking about changes in temperatures and influence of various factors on the global climate. But it has always been a bit disappointing to be reading about various measurements and estimates without being able to get our hands on the data and see how the conclusions have been made. This […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/google-earth-displays-global-warming-values-thanks-british-researchers-20140207/feed/ 0 45730 Google Earth to Help Monitor Natural Disasters with Real-Time Satellite Imagery https://www.greenoptimistic.com/google-earth-will-provide-real-time-satellite-imagery-help-monitor-natural-disasters-20140110/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/google-earth-will-provide-real-time-satellite-imagery-help-monitor-natural-disasters-20140110/#comments Fri, 10 Jan 2014 18:18:53 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=45064 The effects of climate change are becoming more and more apparent as each day passes by. Changes in habitat distributions, uncontrollable and devastating forest fires, severe floods, strong earthquakes and damaging landslides, these are only a few of the natural disasters that occur in a matter of hours and are increasingly becoming harder to monitor. […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/google-earth-will-provide-real-time-satellite-imagery-help-monitor-natural-disasters-20140110/feed/ 1 45064 Google Earth-Based Solar Power Map Could Help Homeowners Optimize Solar Panel Placement https://www.greenoptimistic.com/google-earth-solar-power-map-20110113/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/google-earth-solar-power-map-20110113/#comments Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:29:18 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=16731 Jan Kleissl, Environmental Engineering professor at the San Diego University of California, has been working with his Ph.D. student Matt Lave and other students at the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering at the improvement of the solar map for the state of California, turning Google Earth into an accessible partner.

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