GPS track of our 9 hour bus ride from Quito, Ecuador to the Napo River
Once in the jungle, we stepped over the
tarantulas and poison dart frogs to make it to our outdoor classroom at
Yachana Lodge and face our next challenge: the slow internet connection. Luckily, with a
Google Earth Portable Server we were able to serve satellite imagery, terrain, and vector data locally from our laptop to give the journalists easy access to Google Earth. It was one of our first trial runs with this tool, which will be very useful for future trainings and to other organizations - for example, in crisis response situations where people want to operate a full Google Earth environment despite low internet bandwidth.
Answering Google Earth questions during a hands-on activity with journalists.
Internew’s Earth Journalism Network and Amazonian journalists plan to use these new tools and techniques to bring the story of the Amazon to the public. James Fahn, the executive director of Earth Journalism Network, attended the training and saw many possibilities for collaboration and use of Google mapping and visualization tools for journalists covering environmental issues around the world. If this pilot project is successful, Internews hopes to bring the training to journalism networks in other countries.
Posted by Raleigh Seamster, Google Earth Outreach Program Manager
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