PRI's The World
Gigapan Camera Interview
10 January 2007
Andrea Crossan describes her experience using Gigapan to take panoramas in this interview on PRI's The World.
Nature Magazine
Article: Mapping Disaster Zones
16 February 2006
Google Earth software proved effective during relief efforts in New Orleans and Pakistan, say Illah Nourbakhsh and colleagues. Is there more to be gained than lost from opening up disaster operations to the wider public?
Imaging Notes Magazine
Article: Lack of Cooperation Critical Issue
for Emergency Response Winter 2005
Type II partnerships such as the Global Connection Project ... have begun providing selective imagery useful to field operatives via the Web. These are not operational programs but are effective nevertheless as ad hoc contributions valuable to many relief organizations lacking either the budget or the expertise to obtain accurate field maps for their humanitarian efforts.
National Geographic Magazine
Article: Behind the Scenes
January 2006
Global Connection Project has brought together three major institutions to surmount the challenge of making far-away locales and cultures more richly explored and shared by communities of explorers.
Geotimes Magazine
Article: Spinning Around the Globe Online
December 2005
Working with the National Geographic Society and Google, Global Connection created an algorithm that quickly mapped the locations in all of the magazine articles in National Geographic’s online databases onto Google Earth.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Article: Mapping Katrina's ruins
12 September 2005
Aerial photos of Katrina's destruction laid over Google Earth provide a wealth of information.
CMU Robotics Institute
Seminar
24 March 2006
Global Connection Project has brought together three major institutions to surmount the challenge of making far-away locales and cultures more richly explored and shared by communities of explorers.
Mecury News
Article: Tech Awards to Recognize World Change
22 September 2006
This year's Tech Museum Awards laureates, chosen from 951 entries mailed from 98 countries, were named Wednesday...Among the local honorees is the Global Connection Project, a collaboration between NASA Ames Research Center, Google, Carnegie Mellon University and National Geographic magazine.
Pittsburgh Business Times
Article: Pa. Giving Grant for Virtual Tourism
11 December 2006
The commonwealth, through the Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority, is providing a $285,000 grant to support a partnership between Carnegie Mellon University, Google Earth and NASA that will allow "virtual visits" to the commonwealth's Civil War trails.
The Guardian
Article: Resolution for earthly troubles
13 April 2006
Google's quirky desktop mapping tool is becoming increasingly important in efforts to coordinate disaster relief efforts.
Computer Business Review Online
Article: Pa. to use Google Earth to Promote Tourism
13 December 2006
The Pennsylvania tourism office will incorporate a new technology developed through the global connections project, a partnership that includes CMU, Google and NASA's Ames research center.