Here is a link to the report by the e-Science Centre ESSC, University of Reading, UK from the conference held earlier this year at Cambridge, and attended by our own Maurizio of Madmappers fame, download the .doc here.
Summary
This is a report from the workshop “Google Earth and other geobrowsing tools in the environmental sciences”, which was jointly organised by the Reading e-Science Centre and the National Institute for Environmental e-Science and held at Downing College, Cambridge on 2-3 April 2007. This report contains the original aims of the workshop, the agenda, the workshop outcomes, a summary of the plenary discussion and the abstracts of the talks.
Links to the presentations and practical materials can be found on the workshop website (http://www.niees.ac.uk/events/GoogleEarth/index.shtml).
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