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CliamteScope is an application based on Google Earth API to understand climate impacts and trends through powerfull global images. Visualizing data and allowing citizens to participate actively as local sensors. www.lamma.rete.toscana.it/climascopio
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PCST Florence18-20 April 2012
using the Google Earth virtual globe for a visual storytelling of climate change
CLIMATE SCOPE:
Presenter : Dr. Valentina Grasso
Authors: Valentina Grasso, Alfonso Crisci, Federica Zabini
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Google Earth virtual globe for a visual storytelling of climate change
CLIMATE
SCOPE
Misunderstanding Weather vs Climate
CC Causes are invisibles and complex
CC is FAR in space and time for individual perception; overwhelming “it doesn’t bother me”, “it’s not a threat”
Debate on CC within the scientific community is polarised by media: important to give effective representation of CC DATA
CC is a multi dimensional phenomenon
Barriers in communication of climate change #CC
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Google Earth virtual globe for a visual storytelling of climate change
CLIMATE
SCOPE
A powerful geographic environment to effectively communicate the physical and social dimension of climate change, from the global to the local scale.
People can be information producers to improve the understanding of CC evidence.
Climate Scope
Google Earth virtual globe for a visual storytelling of climate change
CLIMATE
SCOPE
Climate Scope is a Google Earth mash-up
Display global CC informative layers: • Climatic layers (Climate)• Real time data
Open to add local information (people, media, students)
Customisation for “climate hot-spotting”
“Citizen as sensors” model - (Goodchild 2007)
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Google Earth virtual globe for a visual storytelling of climate change
CLIMATE
SCOPE
Cloud Layer Real Time data
Google Earth virtual globe for a visual storytelling of climate change
CLIMATE
SCOPE
# Thank YOU!
@valenitna
