with Prof. Scott Madry and Amanda Henley

Email contacts: madrys@email.unc.edu and ahenley@email.unc.edu

November 13, 2007 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
01 Manning Hall, UNC campus

An area of the Burgundy region of France was surveyed using Google Earth and a surprisingly large number of previously recorded and new archaeological sites were located. This short course describes the capabilities and limitations of Google Earth for regional archaeological survey and site location, and for general feature identification.

Google Earth has significant benefits for this work, but also has limitations that could be addressed to make the tool even more useful. Following a short presentation of the research results, there will be hands-on exercises using Google Earth, imagery, GPS, and ESRI data.

Participants will analyze an area and create "placemarks" to share with others and see how to incorporte GIS data.
Did you know that you can overlay images in Google Earth?
Did you know that you can export GPS data and ArcGIS shapefiles so that they can be viewed in Google Earth?
These exercises will show you how.

• Introductions
• Overview of Google Earth, origins, capabilities, and user interface
• Explanation of Madry's research in France
• Introduction to SketchUp
• short break
• Incorporating GPS data in Google Earth
• Incorporating historic data and time series data
• Raster image overlay and georegistration
• Importing and exporting ArcGIS data

• Avebury and Neolithic Surroundings
• Avian Flu Time Series Map from Declan Butler's Blog - requires GE 4.0 beta or higher.
• World Wide Poultry Production
• Census data examples:
  Durham Income Map and Legend
  Durham Percent White Map and Legend

• 1991 Black and White DOQQ for Chapel Hill Area (zipped jpeg)
• 1998 Color Infrared DOQQ for Chapel Hill Area (zipped tiff)
• Source of these original files is NCCGIA. Data is available from NCOneMap.

• Google Earth home, download code, etc.
• Google Earth downloads
• Getting started with Google Earth
• The Google Earth Community
• Google Earth Community list of forums
• Google Earth kepboard controls
• SketchUp 3-D models in Google Earth
• Wikipedia KML entry

• Using Google Earth Blog
• Frank Taylor's GE Blog
• Ogle Earth Blog (opens in a new window)
• Google Earth Hacks

• Arc2Earth Software, Now Available on the GIS machines in Davis Library Reference.
  Arc2Earth - what it does
  For more information, download the Arc2Earth documentation.
• Description of the new GE time series display.
• Viewing GE placemarks in Google Maps
• Google Earth KML Tutorial

• Google Earth archaeology website
• Archaeology.org GE Interactive Dig
• Census data in Google Earth
• Google Earth Tutorials (9)

• GooPs - A Google Earth GPS Multi-Tracking/Navigation System
• Earthbrigde- Beta 'donateware'
• GPS Visualizer- Free online GPS to .kml batch conversion

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