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Doldrum regions, Virtual Stations, time series, and more (twice-weekly, near-real-time, 50-km) |
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Instructions:
(b) For an offline-version of our products, click on the package link
to download the program package in compressed (zip) format and
uncompress the zip file. Double-click on the unzipped .kml file
and Google Earth will be launched. Or, launch Google Earth first;
on the menu bar, click on 'File' then 'Open,' then select a Coral
Reef Watch .kml file.
Now, Google Earth can be used to view NOAA Coral Reef Watch's
satellite coral bleaching monitoring products. Our products available for
Google Earth are listed in the tables above. For most of our Google Earth
products, users can display them in Google Earth on their computers by a
simple mouse click. No software installation is needed (except for the Google
Earth software). For our online-version Google Earth products,
internet access is required to bring the images onto Google Earth for
display. For our offline-version products,
users can download complete packages containing both program files and
then images and the products can be displayed without live internet connection.
See the instructions below for how to display our products
on Google Earth.
1) Download and install Google Earth on your computer.
Google Earth is free and available at
http://earth.google.com/. For the
Coral Reef Watch products posted on this page, Google Earth Plus and
Google Earth Pro are not required.
2) Some of our products are available as an online-version and
some as an offline-version. See (a) or (b) below for corresponding
instructions.
(a) For an online-version of our Google Earth products,
simply click on the link in the Package column and
Google Earth will be launched with the product imported.
In some browsers, users will first be prompted to use
Google Earth to open the file. In case Google Earth is
not launched in this simple manner, users will usually be prompted to save
a zip file. Save it in
a desired directory on your computer and uncompress the zip file.
(In rare cases the file will be saved with a .kmz extension.
If this happens, simply rename it by changing
the extension from .kmz to .zip and then uncompress the zip file.)
Double-click on the unzipped .kml file and Google Earth will be
launched. Or, launch Google Earth first; on the menu bar, click on
'File' then 'Open,' then select a Coral Reef Watch .kml file.
3) In the 'Place' panel on the left side of the Google Earth window,
find the Coral Reef Watch
product folder under 'Temporary Places.' Open the product folder by
clicking on the right-facing arrow next to it to view the
subfolders and data layers. Click on the box(es) next to the desired
subfolder(s) and data layer(s) to display them in the earth viewing window.
We recommend that only one Coral Reef Watch monitoring product data
layer be displayed at a time. Click
here
to see a sample.
4) Click on the name of a Coral Reef Watch product folder in the
'Place' panel to view the detailed description of the product. Click
here
to see a sample.
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