Raleigh Seamster

In this hands-on session, you will learn how to set up collaborative workspaces, import your own GIS data (KML, SHP, and more), and draw your own points, lines, and polygons to annotate the map, creating single-source-of-truth projects and data layers for your team. You'll also learn how to leverage rich geospatial imagery and data from Google to enhance your analysis.

Local land managers and conservation experts can use Google Earth to efficiently coordinate fieldwork, understand the potential impacts of a project on the landscape, and communicate effectively to their stakeholders. This session will cover the basics of Google Earth Web and Mobile, including how to view and annotate its vast imagery archive, tools to analyze distance and area, and how to create and organize geospatial data seamlessly across web and mobile devices and work together with teams and stakeholders in a shared Earth context.

In this session, we'll get to go outdoors and use mobile devices to collect GPS points, notes and photos while out in the field, then visualize that field data on Google Earth.