NEW! Visualizing PNW Landforms Using Overlays for Google Earth®

Google Earth® is an amazing tool that has revolutionized how we are able to view the Earth through satellite imagery. Now it can be even better: we've turned it into a powerful tool for viewing bare naked landforms by stripping the "noise" of vegetation and the patchwork nature of the imagery.

Explore the big picture of physiographic provinces, or get down to the nitty gritty of volcanic debris, scoria cones and volcanic plugs. Compare the different types of volcanoes in one frame and see explore connections among them. View the entire drainage systems of Mts. Rainier, St. Helens, Hood, and others to predict where lahars will flow and who is at risk. The possibilities are endless.

Much of the power comes from being able to slide the layer transparency toggle switch in Google Earth®. This enables one to merge the landform KMZ with the existing imagery and make connections between landforms and land function (i.e., use, vegetation, and so on). One can utilize the tools of Google Earth® to add place names, roads, or any other desired information. Since kids already often have a good, working knowledge of the program, they can easily add photos, their own place marks with descriptions, and limitless other possibilities for interactive edutainment.

"Visualizing Pacific Northwest Landforms: Volcanics, Puget Lobe, and Missoula Floods" is an introduction to exploring types of PNW volcanoes, along with some requested extras added for teachers who attended the 2011 NSTA regional conference in Seattle (the Puget Lobe, along with some Missoula Floods overlays).

Areas covered include (from south to north): Sutter Buttes and Lake Tahoe, CA; Mt. Shasta and Medicine Lake Volcano, CA; Crater Lake, OR; Newberry Volcano, OR; Three Sisters Volcanoes, OR; Mt. Hood, OR; Portland Volcanic Field,OR; Mt. St. Helens, WA; Mt. Adams, Indian Heaven, Simcoe Mtns.,WA; Mt. Rainier, WA; Mt. Baker, WA; Columbia River Basalts, WA & OR; Puget Lobe, WA; Missoula Floods features, including: Overall extent of floodwaters and glacial lakes; Waterville Plateau, Grand Coulee, Dry Falls, Crescent Bar, WA; Wallula Gap, WA; and more.

Visualizing Pacific Northwest Landforms Using Overlays for Google Earth CD-ROM
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Check out the list of links below to see more examples, as well as screen shots that show other coverage in this CD-ROM. Don't see what you'd like to have? Contact us - we do custom work!