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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 08:04 |
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Slashdot runs a story about using Google Earth to help predict electrical problems. Their summary: "What do you get when you combine images from Google Earth and the brainpower from researchers at Oak Ridge National Labs? Well in this case you get a tool that enables real-time status of the national electric grid that federal state and local agencies can use to coordinate and respond to major problems such as wide-area power outages, natural disasters and other catastrophic events. The Visualizing Energy Resources Dynamically on Earth (VERDE) system, announced this week, mashes together images and stats of everything from real-time status of the electric grid and weather information to power grid behavior modeling and simulation." In a personal comment, I can"t help but think that Google Earth did a great job to geo-enabling a lot of researchers, but many of the mentioned capabilities have been existing in GIS for years. Some related stories copied below. Read more of this story at Slashgeo.
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