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Add webcams to EarthBrowser

Published by Noel Jenkins on December 29, 2005 in Earth Browser. 1 Comment

Earth Browser makes a great backdrop for using webcams in the classroom. Although it comes with hundreds of webcams, it’s very easy to add your own.

Start by searching for webcams on Google, for example Antarctica webcams. Here for example I’ll add the camera at Mawson Station.

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Start Earth Browser and click Options and Webcam list to open the Edit Webcam dialogue. Then click New, and select the country, in this case Antarctica. The Nearest Location drop down box alllows you to locate the webcam symbol accurately, though if necessary you can use latitude and longitude co-ordinnates. Add a title for the camera, for example Mawson research station and then paste the URL of the camera’s web page into the Webpage URL box. Finally locate the actual image URL by right-clicking on the webcam image itself and selecting Properties. Copy the information listed under Address (Internet Explorer) or Location (Firefox) into the Image URL box and then click Add to finish the process.

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The webcam will now be safely stored in Earth Browser’s database. If you cutomize Earth Browser heavily, you might want to save the settings (File / Export Settings) to a safe place, in case you have to reinstall the program in the future.

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New Earthbrowser version

Published by Noel Jenkins on November 22, 2005 in Earth Browser and Teaching resources. 0 Comments

There’s a new version of the excellent virtual globe EarthBrowser.

EarthBrowser screenshot

With near real-time weather satellite images, sea surface temperature animations, hundreds of webcams (and the ability to customize the database) hurricane tracking and higher resolution maps than before, this remains a fantastically useful piece of software. It complements Google Earth and by virtue of it’s simplicity is perhaps the better classroom application for certain topics, particularly for teaching weather and climate. I wrote a short article about using Earth Browser in the classroom last year (link to article).