Posts Tagged ‘KML’
The world has lost almost half of its forests already, and the continued rate of deforestation contributes greatly to climate change and the loss of global biodiversity. This easy to grasp visualisation in Google Earth from the Google Earth Outreach Showcase gives us the state of the forests today. 3D extrusions of the countries boundaries [...]
See anticipated global temperature rising and how it could affect our world until 2100. The animation uses world-leading climate science from the UK’s Met Office Hadley Centre to show world temperatures throughout the next hundred years under medium projections of greenhouse gas emissions.
Users can also access information on action that can be taken by individuals, [...]
Air Quality Index (AQI) forecasts and current conditions (for USA) are available in Keyhole Markup Language (KML) format at the EPA website. Download and open this data layer in Google Earth.
Terradex publishes a realtime air quality monitoring layer displayed on Google Earth as well. The service was recently awarded an Environmental Achievement Award by [...]
Building Green Inc. has teamed up with Google and the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) to create an interactive map for Google Earth. You can explore a collection of over 80 3D building models of buildings in DOE’s High Performance Buildings Database including a description and links to full case studies.
Download Great Green Buildings Google [...]
