Map Projects:Earth Sciences

From Google Mapki

• NightEarth.com Night satellite images of the whole world, using the Google Maps API and NASA imagery.

• The World Through the Seasons This map allows you to browse through 12 months worth of satellite images from 2004 for any part of the world, showing the changes in the land through the seasons. You can see the land drying out, areas turning to green, and whole countries being blanketed by snow.

• High Altitude balloon tracking and plotting by Near Space Ventures This currently works on for the U.S.A. only.

• River Gages by Apage43 - River flow gages from the USGS on a GMap. (this links to a blog that has nothing to do with river maps)(From Grp)

• Recent Earthquakes by Shaine - Shows recent earth quakes on map (USGS data).

• Another Earthquake Map by Dave.

• Yet Another Earthquake Map (csv) selectable csv data from USGS (last hour, last day, last week)

• Yet Another Earthquake Map (xml) selectable xml feed from USGS

• Great Circle calculater Flight path along a great circle (Copied from http://maps.forum.nu/gm_flight_path.html)

• World Volcano Browser Data from Smithsonian Institution, Global Vulcanism Project

• Latitude / Longitude Finder for satellite dish antenna azimuth and elevation angle calculation purposes. Results in both decimal deg and deg/min format.

• Catálogo não oficial de imagens Cbers uses google maps navigation to locate images of the China Brazil Earth Resource Satellite (Cbers). There's free available data for Brazil and a good slice of South America.

• Edible Plants in Public Places Search for edible plants (usually trees) in public places, Geo-locate plants in your area.

• UK Cave locations Display cave locations and access details for the Mendip area in the UK.

• Distance to the sea Same map as the cave link above but try zooming out on the custom ToTheSea map. This shows a colour contour indicating distance to the coast for the UK mainland. Image derived from GSHHS data.

• PISCO Data Products Map Explore subtidal marine community data from the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies for Coastal Oceans. includes abundance data on fish, algae, and invertebrates from Santa Barbara Island to Santa Cruz, CA.

• Malaysia Air Pollution Index Shows the Air Pollution Index in Malaysia.

• Oder's Gate (Wrota Odry) Shows thousands of shipping objects, places and coasts near Oder the river (use photomap to see it)

• Water Resources Explorer(NIWA) NZ Interactive display of modelled water resource data in New Zealand.

• Recent Earthquake with Timeline SIMILE script plus USGS