On Aug 25th OpenEarth presented a Deltares wide lunchlecture "Visualizing our Delta in Google EarthTM" for an overcrowded theatre. Thijs Damsma gave an impressive live demonstration with Google Earth TM of the new GooglePlot toolbox in OpenEarthTools. The entire 20 GB Dutch 'vaklodingen' coastal bathymetry dataset of Rijkswaterstaat could be inspected as a whole for all available years since the 30s (google earth overview, data). This was made possible by the new tiled image tool in OpenEarthTools. Currently the same tiled image is being prepared for the Dutch 'Jarkus' beach/dune bathymetry dataset (google earth overview, data). Both sets will become available on OpenEarth servers soon. After the lunchlecure a dedicated afternoon sprintsession was organized for the Matlab enthousiasts who wanted to use the GooglePlot toolbox from OpenEarthTools too. Presentation of geophysical data on virtual globes becomes increasingly more popular among scientists and engineers, e.g. Virtual globes at AGU.
