Let's focus of Latest Marine Database using Google Earth

The ability of Google Earth can be imaged mainland thumbs up. With Google Earth, users can dig up information, ranging from the appearance of the land, such as volcanoes and rivers and borders between countries, including those still in dispute until the number of victims of war who died in a particular region.

Mountain West Kawio underwater, North Sulawesi, the newly discovered from the results of NOAA's mapping and
Indonesian researchers can now be seen in Ocean features, Google Earth.

Now, Google is focusing to develop marine data base contained in the Ocean features in Google Earth. Michael T Jones, Google's Chief Technology Advocate, in an interview in @ america, Jakarta, Monday (05/23/2011), said, "There is still much information can we dig from there. For example, under the sea surface, many are not yet known. "

Ocean features will help the scientists or the government. "For example we can describe the ships through the region," said Jones. Its function, in the context of Indonesia, Jones explained, "We can know if there are ships that go steal our fish."

With a picture of shipping traffic, then the world can also see where the pirate ship operates. "We could see the area around Somalia, an area that many plows the sea, how the ships there," said Jones. Each government can conduct surveillance in the area.

With Ocean features, information can also be seen under the sea. "We could see the sea surface topography, there are mountains or valley. We can even know what is left there," said Jones. Specific data can appear in different colors, indicating the depth of the imaged region.

Undersea mountain

For information underwater, one of which is reflected in Google Earth today are underwater volcano in the Sangihe-Talaud, Indonesia. The volcano was named West Kawio found in marine research Agency for the Assessment Application of Technology (BPPT) and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Mount have height 3400 meters, nearly matching the height of Mount Semeru in East Java.

Looking ahead, the development of features focused on the Mid Ocean Ocean Observation and Sub Sea Observation. To complete the data base, Jones said that the cooperation of each country is required. "We just provide information. We offer to each country, would contain that information, rather than force because we also have no right," said Jones.

For Indonesia, the BPPT and NOAA marine expedition will be directly published on Google Earth. Rev. Pandu, one of the BPPT staff who also attended the discussion on the @ america said, "In the future we will also conduct marine research in Halmahera." The results published on Google Earth as part of cooperation BPPT and NOAA.

Google so far has also presented detailed information about keantariksaan, such as surface Months dijejaki Apollo astronauts, and the surface of Mars. One of the spectators who were present at @ america challenge Google to present information that can not be physical, such as how many happy people on Earth.

Closing the conversation, Jones said, "The most important thing is not really data, but that data and information could change your thinking, what can you learn from that information." According to him, it is very important to use existing information in Google Earth correctly.