Google Earth Library

Under Geology Category in the GE Library Browser:  

California Groundwater Aquifers

Polygon overlay of groundwater aquifer locations in California. Based on data from the California Department of Water Resources.

Special Instructions

CTRL-Click on a colored area to see the name of the Aquifer and Sub-Basin. The file is about 5 megabytes so it might take a minute or two to load.

Original Data From:

California Department of Water Resources

KML Content Created By:

Matt Fox

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Description:

Various historic aerial photograph overlays, which I will continue to add to as I have time. Currently includes the following:.

• Downtown Los Angeles, California 1948. Created from 11 medium resolution digital aerial photographs purchased from the USGS

• Downtown Oakland, California 1948. Created from aerials scanned at the USGS Library in Menlo Park, CA

• Chicago, Illinois 1938. Created from aerials provided by Illinois Natural Resources Geospatial Data Clearinghouse

Original Data From:

Various, See Above

Original KML Content Created By:

Google Earth Library

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Description:

This collection contains 28 1×2 degree detailed geologic maps covering the entire state of California. These were produced in the 1960s and 1970s by the USGS and State of California.

Original Data From:

USGS and State of California

Original KML Content Created By:

Google Earth Library

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Description:

This collection contains a wide variety of data for the California wildfires of October/November 2007. I created Google Earth versions of many of the data sets and others are simply linked from data sets prepared by others. The following data sets are included in this collections.

• Daily MODIS Satellite imagery courtesy of MODIS Rapid Response Project at NASA/GSFC

• Time animation based on GOES West Satellite imagery collected every 30 minutes during the first several days of the fires.

• Data showing extent of fires from various sources

• Placemarks linking to the locations of destroyed/damaged homes

• Placemarks linking to georeferenced photographs from several Flickr groups.

• Placemarks linking to georeferenced videos from SignOnSanDiego

• Wind pattern animation created by JPL

I will try and continue to add data sets to this collection as it becomes available.

Original KML Content Created By:

Google Earth Library and Various Others

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