Unlock the potential of your agency’s GIS data.
With Google Earth agencies can integrate, organize and publish geospatial data for all to use.
GOOGLE EARTH
After decades of investment in GIS, your government agency has probably amassed a treasure trove of geospatial data. Think what it could accomplish if that treasure chest were unlocked, and all users could share in the riches.
Google Earth solutions provide intuitive, easy-to-use tools to deliver up-to-date geospatial rapidly to the employees that need it to do their job.
With Google Earth, government agencies can integrate, organize and publish location and geospatial data or model scenarios on maps or a 3D globe.
Google Earth for Civilian Agencies
The proven scalability, unmatched performance and massive data consolidation capabilities of Google Earth supports an array of civilian government applications and customer needs including:
- Environmental agencies monitoring various natural assets and land use.
- Space research agencies for visualizing data from Earth and other planets.
- Geological/Land Management agencies for fast, fluid fly-through of their databases.
Read about how the U.S. Forest Service uses Google Earth for its “Automated Flight Following” system, which displays real-time location data for airplanes and other fire-fighting resources in Google Earth™.
Google Earth for Defense / Intelligence
When lightning-quick decisions are required, high performance systems alone are not enough – computing tools must be easy to use and provide full context.
Google Earth breaks the chains of traditional “click and wait” map access.
Users can fly through massive datasets with the speed of a video game, even when the data is resident on a large network. With Google Earth’s integration tools, agencies can leverage and extend existing data and systems, providing more access to more data by more people – turning information into understanding.
Defense and intelligence applications include:
- Mission planning, training, and simulation
- Aerial imagery distribution to geographically dispersed operations
- Visualization of tracked assets and personnel in the field
- Mobile access to Google Earth tools in limited bandwidth situations
Google Earth for Homeland Security
Google Earth solutions cut through the clutter of geospatial databases, allowing analysts and operatives to get the job done quickly and effectively.
Google Earth lets agencies distribute timely location information to more people, providing fast and fluid, interactive earth views streamed over secure networks or the Internet.
Google Earth is a familiar, consumer-tested product with an easy-to-use interface that helps emergency management and homeland security personnel get up and running quickly without extensive training.
Homeland Security applications include:
- Critical infrastructure vulnerability assessment and protection
- First responder site familiarization and planning
- Complete rapid post-disaster damage assessments
Read about how the Alabama Department of Homeland Security uses Google Earth to produce the common operational picture – called “Virtual Alabama” – needed to protect lives and safeguard Alabama citizens in times of man-made or natural disasters.
