This strikes me as another indication of the convergence towards a common data capabilities in the spatially-based sciences.
The areas that NOAA and Google will cooperate on include:
- Engaging the public in ongoing and historic scientific expeditions including those of the NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer;
- Compiling and improving bathymetric datasets to display in Google Earth and make available for downloading;
- Expanding NOAA efforts to publish oceanographic data, especially data from the NOAA-led Integrated Ocean Observing System;
- Expanding NOAA efforts to publish climate data, especially data from the greenhouse gas monitoring system;
- Increasing the amount of data available for NOAA’s Science on a Sphere, an educational Earth science display system, [http://sos.noaa.gov/] by adapting it to display files in the Keyhole Markup Language, the file format Google Earth and Google Maps use for geographic data; and
- Providing interactive access to marine zoning and regulatory information concerning regions such as continental shelf boundaries and marine protected areas.
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