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The brilliant online utlility, GPS Visualizer, now offers a network link for Google Earth that once refreshed, allows you to download alternative background satellite data for the area being viewed, as a KMZ overlay. The link works out which data sets are available for the particular location. I’ve already used it to find an alternative landsat image for a case study that I’m working on.
click to enlargeThe screenshot shows the range of satellite data available for the selected location in the Places folder, with the “Terra” daily 250m overlay loaded in the main viewing window.
Thanks to Ogle Earth (as usual!)
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I have been having a fantastic time with the overlay feature. I have not published any because I am not sure of copyright, but from the Ikonos satellite website, one can find many hi res photos that are better than the actual visual on google earth. For instance view Mt Pinatubo Indonesia on Google Earth, (if you can find it for the clouds), then view Ikonos picture of it. It’s an amazing feature. It is not difficult. In fact, it’s quite easy! I keep the terrain feature on an simply match up geographical features with the photo. I believe the Google Earth is the best FREE download of the century. It will be fun watching it evolve.