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Explore Great Lakes with Google Earth
Date: 10-May-09
Author: NOAA
NOAA is offering a peer beneath the surfaces of the five Great Lakes by providing Google Earth with data that now includes detailed three-dimensional mapping of Lakes Huron, Ontario, Erie, Superior and Michigan.
Visitors to the new Great Lakes feature can explore the canyons and sandbars in eastern Lake Superior, the Lake Michigan mid-lake reef complex, and the old river channel -- now underwater -- that once connected Lakes Michigan and Huron at the Straits of Mackinac.
NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) in Ann Arbor, Mich., teamed up with the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) in Boulder, Colo., to produce the Google Earth tour to highlight some of the interesting coastal and subsurface features.
 Screen shot from NOAA's Google Earth tour. Courtesy: Google Earth.
The Great Lakes are the largest system of fresh surface water on Earth, containing roughly 18 percent of the world supply.
Full story: NOAA Brings Great Lakes to Google Earth
Related link:
• NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
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