Google Earth and Google Fusion Tables in support of time-critical collaboration: Mapping the deepwater horizon oil spill with the AVIRIS airborne spectrometer

Earth Science Informatics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 169-179

  Bradley, Eliza S ^a   Roberts, Dar A ^a   Dennison, Philip E ^b   Green, Robert O ^c   Eastwood, Michael ^c   Lundeen, Sarah R ^c   McCubbin, Ian B ^d   Leifer, Ira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne imaging spectrometry; AVIRIS; Deepwater horizon oil spill; Google Earth; Google Fusion Tables; Remote sensing image database

Indexed keywords

AVIRIS; DATA SET; DATABASE; DEEP WATER; MAPPING; OIL SPILL; SOFTWARE; VISUALIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 83555177322     PISSN: 18650473     EISSN: 18650481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12145-011-0085-4     Document Type: Article

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