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Article: Google Earth impact: saving science dollars and illuminating geo-science.(Product/service evaluation)
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- April 1, 2007
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Scott Madry remembers how hard it was to get a decent aerial photo before Google Earth.
As an anthropology professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the Fulbright honoree has relied on bird's-eye views of the rural French countryside to find archeological excavation sites for over 25 years. Getting these views, however, often required snapping photos through rented airplane windows during low-level flyovers, an expensive process he describes as "extremely inefficient and not a little dangerous."
Google Earth changed all that. While Madry continues to spot dig sites from above, his flyovers have gone virtual. From his Chapel Hill ...