Google Earth blog.(RECOMMENDED RESOURCES AND ODDMENTS)(www.gearthblog.com/basics.html)(Brief article)

Sensors Magazine, July, 2006 by Martella, Melanie

Google Earth is a virtual globe program that stitches together satellite imagery, aerial photography, and GIS over a 3D globe. The basic program is pretty amazing, but what's even more fun are the overlays--for instance, a 3D model of the Great Pyramid of Giza, visualization of radiation quantities at Chernobyl, or a 1666 map of London.

Fascinating. > www.gearthblog.com/basics.html

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