The magazine Common Ground has an excellent feature on the work of computer scientist Rebecca Moore that was the impetus for Google Earth Outreach. Moore realized the power of Google Earth visualizations back when the product was known as Keyhole, and used the tool very effectively to help hault a utility’s planned logging efforts in her backyard of Los Gatos Creek Canyon.
Moore’s efforts as head of Google Earth Outreach have included support for The U.S. Holocaust Museum’s genocide mapping in Darfur, the mapping of mountatintop removal for coal mining in Appalachia, and hands-on training with indigenous Amazonian tribes to spot illegal mining and logging on their land.
Read the full story here.
