Google Earth at UCAR
Google Outreach granted UCAR a number of Google Earth Pro licenses for use by UCAR staff from 2010-2011 but has discontinued our grant due to NCAR's status as an FFRDC. If you need the additional features of Google Earth Pro, such as video recording, higher resolution printing, and advanced import/export, please contact Google Earth Pro Sales to purchase a license key. Otherwise, you can simply download the freely available Google Earth which doesn't require a license key.
- Google Earth Links and Resources
- Google Earth Pro Installation Instructions
- Google Earth Tips
- UCAR Google Earth Solutions Exchange and Showcase
Fair Use Policy
Google Earth and Google Earth Pro have a fair use policy that covers many academic uses. Please consult this page before publishing screenshots of your data in Google Earth or Google Earth Pro.
Google Earth Mailman List
Join the Google Earth Mailman List if you'd like to join the discussion of how Google Earth is being put to use at UCAR as well as share tips with others.
UCAR Google Earth Solutions Exchange and Showcase
Please share your Google Earth and Google Earth Pro solutions here by adding links, uploading scripts, KML files or other Google Earth-related solutions and output. Alternatively, you can add a wiki page that describes your solution in more detail.
- EOL Field Projects
- Google Earth and NARCCAP
- Google Earth Animates Antarctic Driftsonde Tracks
- Illustration for Weatherwise article
- Reconstructing the ancient Nile delta
- Sydney Airport Wind Shear System Assessment
- Wildfire mapping and modeling
- Wind Shear Detection System Evaluations
- GLOBE Xpedition Tracks (Scroll 3/4 of the way down the page to find the Google Earth plug-in embedded in the page)
- EOL G-V Live Flight Tracking
1 Comment
Pavel Romashkin
Having GE Pro adds another level of usability and convenience to our utilization of GE. Being able to save paths, calculate lengths and areas of polygons are extremely useful abilities that we will start using immediately.
I am already using saved paths for planning the next set of field experiments such as TORERO and HIPPO-Global Phases 3,4 and 5.
At first GE Pro froze on my W-7 x64 machine and then conflicted apparently with GE non-Pro but all of a sudden this went away. Some issue must have been addressed in a W-7 patch.
I will be uploading several KMLs that I use for real time flight support that our University users all over the world found useful.