IMSMA News

Aug 23, 2005 at 06:32 o\clock

Google Earth Pro

Google Earth – Explore, Search and Discover

Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.

Google Earth Pro has a huge potential as an easy to use spatial data vizualisation tool.  It takes only a few steps to define a Mine Action Layer and import shape files from the IMSMA GIS Functionality (ArcView).

Country overview data can be prepared by the Mine Action Centers and shared with the UNMAS, donors and interested groups.

In this example from Kabul City I located the Safe Viewing Point (SVP) of a Suspected Hazardous Area (SHA) from the Landmine Impact Survey (LIS) and loaded the sketch map as an overlay.

Comments for this entry:

  1. minemapper wrote at Sep 17, 2005 at 04:06 o\clock:Karal,

    How difficult was it to register the sketchmap? and what are the band width requirements for the google app?

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