About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 99. Chapters: AATSR, Aerial photographic and satellite image interpretation, Aerial video, Airborne Real-time Cueing Hyperspectral Enhanced Reconnaissance, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Arirang-2, Bhuvan, Bidirectional reflectance distribution function, Canadian Geospace Monitoring, Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing, Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System, Collocation (remote sensing), Controlled source electro-magnetic, DART radiative transfer model, Differential optical absorption spectroscopy, Digital elevation model, Dragon (remote sensing), Earth observation, Empirical reflectance retrieval, Erdas Imagine, Esri, Full spectral imaging, George Joseph (scientist), Global Earth Observation System of Systems, Google Earth, Group on Earth Observations, Hemispherical photography, Hydroacoustics, Hyperspectral imaging, Isoline retrieval, Leaf Area Index, Marble (software), Maximum-value composite procedure, METRIC, MicroMSI, Mobile mapping, Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, Ocean Surface Topography Mission, Opticks (software), Optimal estimation, Orthophoto, Photochemical Reflectance Index, Pleiades (satellite), Radiometric calibration, RapidEye, Red edge, Red Hen Systems, Remote sensing (archaeology), Remote sensing application, Remote Sensing Malaysia, Sea bed logging, Sea ice concentration, Sea ice emissivity modelling, Sea ice thickness, SEBAL, Snapshot hyperspectral imaging, Societal Benefit Areas, Sound ranger, Space Saves Society, Specim, SPOT (satellite), STSAT-2A, TeraVue, Thermal infrared spectroscopy, Tier-Scalable Reconnaissance, UN-SPIDER, UNOSAT, WindScan, WISDOM Project. Excerpt: Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program that was originally called EarthViewer 3D, and was created by Keyhole, Inc, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) funded company acquired by Google in 2004 (see In-Q-Tel). It maps the Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS 3D globe. It was available under three different licenses, two currently: Google Earth, a free version with limited function; Google Earth Plus (discontinued), which included additional features; and Google Earth Pro ($399 per year), which is intended for commercial use. The product, re-released as Google Earth in 2005, is currently available for use on personal computers running Windows 2000 and above, Mac OS X 10.3.9 and above, Linux kernel: 2.6 or later (released on June 12, 2006), and FreeBSD. Google Earth is also available as a browser plugin which was released on May 28, 2008. It was also made available for mobile viewers on the iPhone OS on October 28, 2008, as a free download from the App Store, and is available to Android users as a free app in the Google Play store. In addition to releasing an updated Keyhole based client, Google also added the imagery from the Earth database to their web-based mapping software, Google Maps. The release of Google Earth in June 2005 to the public caused a more than tenfold increase in media coverage on virtual globes between 2004 and 2005, driving public interest in geospatial technologies and applications. As of October 2011, Google Earth has been downloaded more than a billion times. For other parts of the surface of the Earth, 3D images of terrain and buildings are available. Google Earth uses digital elevation model (DEM) data collected by NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). This means one can view the whole earth in three dimensions. Since November 2006, the 3D views of many mountains, including Mount Everest, have been improved by the use of supplementary DE
