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The Oyster Grounds Google Earth Tour
Welcome to the dynamic virtual tour of the marine environment at the Dutch Oyster Grounds as observed with a range of multi-national traditional and novel autonomous monitoring systems.
The Oyster Ground Google
Earth tour is a prototype that demonstrates how Google Earth can be
used to display operational and historic marine ecosystem data that
is resolved in space and time.
The tour focuses on March 2006 to July 2007 and is composed of 2 layers:
The first layer allows you to tour the locations and types of monitoring systems (platforms) in place. The tour shows the parameters measured by each of the platforms operating in the Oyster Grounds and compares measurements of each parameter measured by the different platforms. The layer demonstrate how historic time series data can be displayed in Google Earth and show how data may be merged from different monitoring platforms to form a composite data set.
The second layer allows you to view the daily measurements made by the various monitoring platforms by selecting a specific date using an interactive calendar. The prototype application will then generate a Google Earth layer for the selected date.
To Take the Oyster Ground Google Earth Tour
| 1. | If you not have Google Earth installed on your computer Click here to download Google Earth, otherwise skip this step. |
| 2. | Open Google Earth and open the touring options (for a PC: Google Earth -> Tools -> Options -> Touring; for a Mac: Google Earth -> Preferences -> Touring). |
| 3. | Check the "Show balloon when tour is paused" checkbox and set the "tour pause" to 30 "seconds" (or to your preferred pause time). Return to these instructions |
| 4. | Click here to download the Google Earth tour of the Oyster Ground monitoring platforms. This will open in Google Earth. |
| 5. | Click the Play button at the bottom of the "Places" directory at left or go to Tools in the top menu and select Play Tour. |
| 6. | Uncheck "The Oyster Ground tour" box in the "Places" directory in Google Earth. This will remove the tour from visibility ready for viwing the second layer. Return to these instructions. |
| 7. | Click here to download daily measurements taken at the Oyster Ground for a selected date. |
| 8. | Save the Layers in "my places" by right clicking on the layer in "temporary places" and selecting the "save to my places" option. |
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