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Google Earth physics

C E Aguiar1 and A R Souza1,2

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Google 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.


PACS

93.85.Bc Computational methods and data processing, data acquisition and storage

93.30.Ge Europe

92.40.Qk Water quality and water resources

Subjects

Instrumentation and measurement

Environmental and Earth science

Dates

Issue 6 (November 2009)

Received 19 July 2009



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