• Group Discounts
• Cancellation Policy

Seminar Description

Google Earth can be a powerful tool for natural resource professionals and technicians. In addition to its high quality base imagery and 3d terrain, it can display roads, place names, and current weather. Layers such as topography, bedrock geology, community watershed boundaries, aerial photo flightlines, and forest inventory can be added by linking to third-party sources. Google Earth has tools for creating points, lines, polygons, measuring distance, and importing data from GPS receivers. It also allows scanned maps and aerial photos to be loaded and georeferenced. These added vector and bitmap objects can be annotated with text, images, and hyperlinks thus allowing richly-formatted interactive content to be created. These objects can be organized into folders and saved as KMZ files for personal record-keeping, sharing with colleagues, or electronic publishing. In short, Google Earth is a general purpose tool for viewing, creating, and sharing information related to locations on the earth. Because it is free, it is an ideal target platform for making your spatial data available to the public. See this link for examples (1.2 megabyte PDF file)  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10838207/Google_Earth_interface_for_photos_and_data.pdf

Familiarity with Google Earth would be advantageous but is not required.

Agenda
•      Finding and using third-party content
•      Creating, importing, and editing points, lines, and polygons
•      Annotating objects with text, links, and snapshots
•      Making georeferenced maps and aerial photos
•      Managing and publishing your content

Intended audience – Anyone who uses maps, aerial photos, or other geospatial data will be able to more easily access information created by third-parties, document information that they create for internal records, and prepare their material for access by others. Industry examples: Field activities associated with Forestry, Geology, Hydrology, Recreation, Transportation, Public Safety, Land Use Planning and Monitoring. 

Instructor:

Mr. Patrick Teti P.Geo. was a Research Hydrologist with the Ministry of Forests and Range in Williams Lake for 18 years and is now an Emeritus Scientist with the Ministry of Natural Resource Operations. His research projects have been aimed at the effects of timber harvesting and regeneration on forest structure, snow hydrology, and stream shade. He invented an instrument for measuring shade under a forest canopy, developed procedures for taking his own vertical aerial photos, and has helped produce more than 20 reports and publications. Since retiring from the B.C. Government he has enjoyed doing more woodworking, running and volunteering in his community.

What previous participants have said about this seminar

• "Excellent - Patrick's knowledge is broad and his enthusiasm contagious."
• "All information was valuable. I had no idea how powerful a tool Google Earth was!"
• "Excellent session, very practical and helpful."
• "Great Course, 10/10, A+"

Cancellation Policy

Registered attendees unable to attend the event may designate a substitute, provided APEGBC receives written notification at least one business day prior to the event. Registration information for the substitute attendee should accompany the notice. If notice of cancellation of registration is received:

•  5 business days or more prior to the event, a refund will be processed
•  Less than 5 business days prior to the event, no refunds apply

Substitute registrants are permitted up to the day of the seminar and member/non-member fees will be applied. The organizers reserve the right to cancel the event if less than the minimum required participants have registered. Liability limited to registration fee.

APEGBC is an AIBC/CES registered provider offering an AIBC-Accredited activity for 2.75 Core Learning Units.

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