CSHEL: September 2012

Sunday, September 30, 2012

MAKE Magazine

In the West Courtyard, look for the large swimming pool surrounded by swarms of kids — that's where you'll find the PVC submersible robots of the Marine Advanced Technology Education Center (MATE), an organization funded by the National Science Foundation that puts on a competition of student-built underwater ROVs. They have simpler robots in the pool that kids can drive around, along with a more robust robot (bottom photo) on display.

Filed under: Maker Faire

Original Article: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/makezineonline/~3/zbXgxHGXZ_c/

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360-degree iPhone Panoramic Camera Travels Across America on a Scooter

MAKE Magazine

Panoramic videographer and iPhone hacker Gabriel Paez is currently half-way across the country on his coast-to-coast trip from Seaside, OR to Portland, ME. As of this writing he's in Dubuque, IA with his 2005 Vespa PX150 named Pucho. Riding atop his scooter, Paez is outfitted with a unique panoramic camera of his own design. Consisting of eight iPhones mounted to a harness and positioned directly over his helmet, the entire rig is controlled by a ninth wrist-mounted iPhone running custom software written by Paez. Check out Gabriel's site to find out more about the project, see where he's at, ask him a question, or donate some gas money. [Thanks, Marsee!]

Filed under: iPhone, Mobile, Photography, Transportation, Video Making

Original Article: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/makezineonline/~3/WFcF90IY78g/

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Google Maps Coordinate Grants announced at Geo for Good User Summit

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/SbSV/~3/ghqahCx4neo/google-maps-coordinate-grants-announced.html

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Friday, September 28, 2012

Street View goes underwater

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleEarthBlog/~3/ZLQSWbndfOs/street_view_goes_underwater.html

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Dive into the Great Barrier Reef with the first underwater imagery in Google Maps

Google LatLong
September 25, 2012 7:05 PM
by Lat Long Blog

Dive into the Great Barrier Reef with the first underwater imagery in Google Maps

Today we're adding the very first underwater panoramic images to Google Maps, the next step in our quest to provide people with the most comprehensive, accurate and usable map of the world. With these vibrant and stunning photos you don't have to be a scuba diver—or even know how to swim—to explore and experience six of the ocean's most incredible living coral reefs. Now, anyone can become the next virtual Jacques Cousteau and dive with sea turtles, fish and manta rays in Australia, the Philippines and Hawaii.

Get up close and personal with sea turtles at Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef (View Larger Map)

Starting today, you can use Google Maps to find a sea turtle swimming among a school of fish, follow a manta ray and experience the reef at sunset—just as I did on my first dive in the Great Barrier Reef last year. You can also find out much more about this reef via the World Wonders Project, a website that brings modern and ancient world heritage sites online.
At Apo Island, a volcanic island and marine reserve in the Philippines, you can see an ancient boulder coral, which may be several hundred years old. And in the middle of the Pacific, in Hawaii, you can join snorkelers in Oahu's Hanauma Bay and drift over the vast coral reef at Maui's Molokini crater.

We're partnering with The Catlin Seaview Survey, a major scientific study of the world's reefs, to make these amazing images available to millions of people through the Street View feature of Google Maps. The Catlin Seaview Survey used a specially designed underwater camera, the SVII, to capture these photos.

The Catlin Seaview Survey team on location on the Great Barrier Reef, encountering a manta ray (View Larger Map)

Whether you're a marine biologist, an avid scuba diver or a landlocked landlubber, we encourage you to dive in and explore the ocean with Google Maps. Check out our complete underwater collection, featuring a Google+ underwater Hangout from the Great Barrier Reef. And you can always explore more imagery from around the world by visiting maps.google.com/streetview.

Explore more underwater images

Posted by Brian McClendon, VP of Google Maps and Earth (and snorkeling enthusiast)

Dr. Art Trembanis

Associate Professor

CSHEL

109 Penny Hall

Department of Geological Sciences

The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment

University of Delaware

Newark DE 19716

http://cshel.geology.udel.edu

302-831-2498

"We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."

-T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding

"Il faut aller voir" -JYC

FieldNotes LT: Take geo-located notes on your Android device

Google Earth Blog
September 25, 2012 9:04 AM
by Google Earth Blog

FieldNotes LT: Take geo-located notes on your Android device

Nick is an environmental engineering student at UC Berkeley, and has worked with a professor there to produce an app that allows you to take geo-location based notes, attach photos, and export the notes in a nice Google Earth KMZ format. The app is very simple and works well.

Evernote and other note-taking apps offer some geolocation features, but it is difficult to get those notes into Google Earth. With this app, it's quite easy to write a note, snap a photo, and email the KMZ to anyone you'd like.

Here's the result of one I just did:

While the app is simple and works well, there were a few oddities:

1 - When I saved it, I had a few choices on what to do with the KMZ file (email, etc), but "View it in Google Earth on Android" wasn't one of them. That may be more of an issue with my setup than with the app, but it was surprising since the latest version of Google Earth on Android supports KML files.
2 - The photo shows up sideways in Google Earth.
3 - I had to take a new photo; couldn't select one from my gallery instead.
4 - The pin is on my current location, and is accurate, but would be nice to choose an alternate location.

In any case, it's a handy little app for $0.99, and could be very useful for some people depending on what they need to accomplish. You can find it on Google Play here. No word on an iOS version, but time will tell.

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