TITLE:

Google's Spatial Tools in the Marine Environment - Decision Support

ABSTRACT:

Google Maps and Google Earth have put much of the functionality of
Geographic Information Systems in the hands of the end users.
Maritime users are just beginning to understand the power of map
mashups that bring together diverse datasets to help mariners and
those who manage the waterways to better understand the uses, risks,
and impacts of vessel traffic on our nation's waterways.  I will
present a number of data types ranging from raster images of ocean
flow modeling, to vessel traffic over time captured by the marine
Automatic Identification System, to real time right whale notices for
vessels approaching Boston Harbor.


AFFILIATION: 

Research Assistant Professor of Ocean Engineering in the Center for
Coastal (CCOM) and the Joint Hydrographic Center at the University of
New Hampshire.

BIO: 

Kurt's main research focus is on the Chart of the Future in
collaboration with NOAA, USCG, and Cornell University.  Kurt received
his PhD from Scripps Institution of Oceanography studying marine
geology and geophysics and received a B.S. Geology from Stanford
University.  He has worked at JPL, NASA Ames, the Field Robotics
Center at Carnegie Mellon, and the USGS Menlo Park.  In addition to
his marine work, he has particpated in a number of space craft missions
including the recent Phoenix Mars Lander.