Google Earth Dissemination of Soil Survey Derived Interpretations for Land Use Planning

Authors

NJ Hamilton, University of KentuckyFollow
B Mijatovic, University of KentuckyFollow
TG Mueller, UNiversity of KentuckyFollow
BD Lee, University of KentuckyFollow
B. W. Kew, Pennsylvania State UniversityFollow
Cetin Haluk, Murray State UniversityFollow
Anastasios D. Karathanasis, University of KentuckyFollow

Volume

47

Issue

5

Abstract

The Cooperative Extension Service could help individuals and communities make more informed decisions regarding residential development by providing soil survey-derived land use assessment data through Google Earth, a popular Web-based map viewer. This article describes how existing data sets can be more readily visualized with commercially available Internet software and provides examples of how these maps can be interpreted for land use assessment. Finally, the opportunities and constraints of using Google Earth as a tool for disseminating land use planning information are described.

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Recommended Citation

Hamilton, N., Mijatovic, B., Mueller, T., Lee, B., Kew, B. W., Haluk, C., & Karathanasis, A. D. (2009). Google Earth Dissemination of Soil Survey Derived Interpretations for Land Use Planning. The Journal of Extension, 47(5), Article 3. https://open.clemson.edu/joe/vol47/iss5/3