We are having fun in computer class, even though everything seems to be going wrong!
August 2007 Archives
Google has just added a nifty new tool to Google maps. It allows you to create a map, then make an embeddable map to put on a web page or blog. With this tool you don't have to get an API key. Also, you don't have to know programming at all. This is pretty amazing!
As an example, here is a map I made of the route from the Mont Alto Campus to the Waynesboro Reservoir, where we hold many of the forest technology labs.
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Wherever you drive in Northern Maine there are signs to beware the moose. There have been quite a few fatal accidents in the last few years. Yet, moose are not always that easy to find. While visiting a sportsmen camp last week (8/8/2007) for the CEFTS meeting, we were told of an almost guaranteed place where the moose could be seen. There was nothing there except for a few prints. But on the way back we saw this cow, nearly hidden in the saplings growing on an old logging road.
After watching us for a few minutes she turned to go back in the forest. We noticed she had a calf with her. Maybe that's why she was so vigilant.
On Monday, 7/30, I visited Centralia with geologist Dan Vice, from the Hazelton campus. Dan has been researching the coal fire that led to the abandonment of Centralia. He is interested in using remote sensing to possibly predict the spread of the fire, which is spread to four different fronts. I hope to help with this and see if changes to the forest cover can also be used to track the fires. The fire was started inadvertantly in 1962 when the town was burning trash left on an abandoned coal seam. The fire continues to burn, although maybe not as hot as it once was. I was surprised to see that a few people continue to live there. I think it would be too creepy for me.
Here are some pictures that I took. I also have some of them geotagged in the Flickr viewer:
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.