GeoStrategis

Strategy Mapping Knowledge Management Sustainable development Policy Mapping Monitoring and Evaluation Geo-Spatial Infrastructure

Google Earth Knowledge Management

Google has already become the most significant societal knowledge access tool. Google Earth adds the geospatial dimension and enables the transition from just knowledge access to knowledge communication, visualization, integration and value-adding culminating in (societal) knowledge management.

Our explorations / examples:

• Monitoring the melting of permafrost in peatlands with Google Earth. More..
• Permafrost Melting: Retrogressive slides:
  • Trevor Range, Yukon;
  • Caribou River area, Yukon;
  • Bonnet Plume River area.
• Boreal ecoregion fire ecology. More... Winter Satellite Images and Wildland Fire History.
• Beavers, beavers, everywhere....More.....
  • The longest beaver dam in the world. More...
  • Beaver engineered landscapes: The Highest Density of Beavers in Canada, More...
  • The Pakwaw Lake Beaver Community and Beaver Capital of Canada. More...

The Canada Land Inventory on Google Earth

• Regional (landscape) planning by merging Google Earth and the Canada Land Inventory Digital Data Base. More...
• Land Capability Overlays on Google Earth around Canada's Major Urban Centres:
  • Ottawa Gatineau;
  • Toronto;
  • Montreal;
  • Quebec City;
  • Edmonton;
  • Calgary;
  • Regina;
  • Winnipeg;
  • Fredericton;
  • Halifax;
  • St.John's;
  • Charlottetown, PEI
• The Canada Land Inventory in rural areas:
  • The Pas, Manitoba;
  • Peace River, Alberta;
  • Prince Albert, Saskatchewan;
  • Gaspé, Quebec;
  • Cochrane, Ontario

A Google Earth Exploration Challenge:

• Finding Glacial Lake Agassiz. More..