C E Aguiar and A R Souza 2009 Phys. Educ. 44 624 doi:10.1088/0031-9120/44/6/009
C E Aguiar1 and A R Souza1,2
Show affiliationsGoogle Earth photographs often show ships and their wakes in great detail. We discuss how the images can be used to calculate the velocity of these ships.
93.85.Bc Computational methods and data processing, data acquisition and storage
Issue 6 (November 2009)
Received 19 July 2009
C E Aguiar and A R Souza 2009 Phys. Educ. 44 624
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