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Transferring Google Earth observations to GIS-software: example from gully erosion study

2012; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 6; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/17538947.2012.744777

ISSN

1753-8955

Autores

Amaury Frankl, Ann Zwertvaegher, Jean Poesen, Jan Nyssen,

Tópico(s)

Landslides and related hazards

Resumo

Abstract High-resolution images available on Google Earth are increasingly being consulted in geographic studies. However, most studies limit themselves to visualizations or on-screen measurements. Google Earth allows users to create points, lines, and polygons on-screen, which can be saved as Keyhole Markup Language (KML) files. Here, the use of R statistics freeware is proposed to easily convert these files to the shapefile format [or '.shp file format'], which can be loaded into Geographic Information System (GIS) software (ESRI ArcGIS 9 in our example). The geospatial data integration in GIS strongly increases the analysis possibilities.

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