Google Earth Community: near real-time ocean observing data

I work with ocean observing systems (OOS's) and wanted to share some hourly refreshed KML files available from the following network link

http://carocoops.org/gearth/Near Real-Time Ocean Observing Data.kml

which contain near real-time data for:

several map imagery overlays collected and shared using WMS
http://carocoops.org/gearth/latest_overlays.kml

platform data and graphs (> 1000 platforms for US)
http://carocoops.org/gearth/latest_placemarks.kmz

The observations currently aggregated to the placemark info are: wind_speed,wind_from_direction,wind_gust,air_temperature,air_pressure,sea_surface_temperature,sea_bottom_temperature,salinity,current_speed,current_to_direction,significant_wave_height,dominant_wave_period,water_level

If you have a collection of platforms and would like to see their measurements included similarly to this data layer, please send me an email at jcothran[at symbol]asg.sc.edu

The perl code demonstrates transforming a series of WMS calls into KML groundoverlay elements and XML data returned from a web service into KML placemark elements.

The code elements are listed under the directory
http://carocoops.org/gearth (see the 'readme.txt' file)

Planning to add more map images and platforms/observations to this as things progress. Sorry if the server response is slow.

Questions/feedback welcome,
Cheers
Jeremy Cothran
http://carocoops.org
http://seacoos.org
http://openioos.org

Edited by jcothran2 (04/22/06 10:23 AM)

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