There is a very interesting story behind this approach, having to do with a google earth engineer who lived near a proposed timber harvest in the Santa Cruz mountains that understated the extent of a clearcut. She successfully used google earth to accurately describe the proposal and demonstrate that it exceeded criteria for exemption. She has apparently become quite a conservation advocate. This is second hand information from a friend who works on marine protected areas for an environmental law firm. Others may have more specific information at hand?
Rachel O'Malley -Sent from my telephone On May 19, 2014, at 7:41 AM, David Inouye <ino...@umd.edu> wrote: > My brother's been using this technique to measure area by using images > grabbed from Google Earth. Looks like it might work better for some of the > areas I've been measuring by walking the perimeter with a hand-held GPS > (Garmin) that can measure area that way. He provided a link to this resource > for more information about the technique: http://blog.duklabs.com/?p=219 > > David Inouye
