Google Earth Markets World Oceans Day
Google with their Google Earth application is pushing awareness of the World Oceans Day with a variety of visualizations of different data dealing with the world’s oceans. In the past Google has done it’s part in going green and marketing their backing of Earth Day, but now as climate and global warming issues continue to arise, we see World Oceans Day in the spotlight. This certainly was not a major recognized “go green day” in the past decade, but Google Maps, Google Earth and all of Google’s free software toolset continues to make headlines.
World Oceans Day offers the opportunity to celebrate the wonders of the underwater world and look carefully at our interactions with the sea. An increasing number of people are moving to the coasts, but for many of them what goes on beneath the surface is still a mystery. As a result the ocean is often left out of sight, out of mind. To counter that, here’s a sample of different ways to visualize the wet portion of our planet.
The list of visualizations on the World Oceans Day website include things that were eaten by an ocean cruising albatross, mosaic art pieces, earth satellite maps view where the ocean is overfished, and even satellite maps for the wind levels and sea levels across the globe… the Google Earth Browser Plugin is required to see this exciting imagery.
