IN54A:
Working Toward a Living Dashboard of the Planet II

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Session ID#: 16789

Session Description:
During the last decade the emergence of web-based maps and globes have changed they way scientists, educators or anyone can view the world we live on. There is now many geospatial tools that allow more than just armchair discovery. They provide an infrastructure for monitoring of the planet at high spatial and temporal resolution, by allowing users to harness the power of free, web-based maps and globes for geospatial analysis, visualization and storytelling.

We encourage submissions from across all Earth Science disciplines that leverage web-based maps, virtual globes and related geospatial tools to study our planet. The session will highlight successes of these tools, their role in enhancing science, and opportunities for the future. Collectively there is real opportunity to develop an ecosystem of geospatial tools that provide a living dashboard view of our planet, which could offer a means for comprehending and mitigating the many issues it faces.

Primary Convener:  John Bailey, Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA, UNITED STATES; University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
Conveners:  Rebecca T Moore1, Randy Sargent1,2 and Tyler Allen Erickson1, (1)Google, Mountain View, CA, United States(2)Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Chairs:  John Bailey, Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA, UNITED STATES; University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States and Tyler Allen Erickson, Google, Mountain View, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  John Bailey, Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA, UNITED STATES; University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • ED - Education
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
Index Terms:

0845 Instructional tools [EDUCATION]
1926 Geospatial [INFORMATICS]
1928 GIS science [INFORMATICS]
1992 Virtual globes [INFORMATICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Building a Dashboard of the Planet with Google Earth and Earth Engine (193136)
Rebecca T Moore1, Matthew Hancher1 and Google Earth and Earth Engine Team, (1)Google, Mountain View, CA, United States
Building a Dashboard for Natural Event Monitoring: NASA’s Global Imagery Browse Services + Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker + Worldview (Invited) (142655)
Kevin Ward1,2 and Ryan A Boller1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States
Map of Life - A Dashboard for Monitoring Planetary Species Distributions (133666)
Walter Jetz, Yale University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, New Haven, United States and Map of Life Team
Earth Adventure: Virtual Globe-based Suborbital Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases Exploration (179968)
Yaxing Wei1, Kyle Landolt2, Alison Boyer1, Suresh Kumar Santhana Vannan1, Zhaoying Wei1 and Eric Wang1, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States
Daily monitoring of the land surface of the Earth (Invited) (124595)
Joseph Mascaro, Planet, San Francisco, CA, United States
Google Earth-Based Grand Tours of the World’s Ocean Basins and Marine Sediments (135582)
Kristen K St John1, Declan G De Paor2, Ben Suranovic1, Caroline Mae Robinson3, John V Firth4 and Cari Rand5, (1)James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, United States, (2)Old Dominion Univ, Norfolk, VA, United States, (3)Ohio State University Main Campus, Earth Science, Columbus, OH, United States, (4)IODP, College Station, TX, United States, (5)Tulane University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA, United States
Combining Human and Machine Learning to Map Cropland in the 21st Century’s Major Agricultural Frontier (177885)
Lyndon D Estes1, Stephanie R Debats1, Kelly K Caylor2, Tom P Evans3, Drew Gower1, Dennis McRitchie1, Timothy Searchinger4, David R Thompson5, Eric F Wood6 and Lindy Zeng1, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)Indiana University Bloomington, Center for the Study of Institutions, Populations, and Environmental Change (CIPEC) and Department of Geography, Bloomington, IN, United States, (4)Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States
Exploring Visual Evidence of Human Impact on the Environment with Planetary-Scale Zoomable Timelapse Video (181643)
Mark Egge1, Randy Sargent1,2, Paul S Dille1, Gabriel D O'Donnell1 and Chris Herwig2, (1)Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (2)Google, Mountain View, CA, United States

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