Transferring Google Earth observations to GIS-software: example from gully erosion study

作     者：Amaury Frankl Ann Zwertvaegher Jean Poesen Jan Nyssen 

作者机构：Department of GeographyGhent UniversityGhentBelgium Department of Geology and Soil ScienceGhent UniversityGhentBelgium Department of Earth and Environmental SciencesKU LeuvenHeverleeBelgium 

出 版 物：《International Journal of Digital Earth》 (国际数字地球学报（英文）)

年 卷 期：2013年第6卷第2期

页      面：196-201页

核心收录：

学科分类：070801[理学-固体地球物理学] 07[理学] 08[工学] 0708[理学-地球物理学] 0816[工学-测绘科学与技术] 0835[工学-软件工程] 0704[理学-天文学] 0811[工学-控制科学与工程] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：Coudere´bvba(Monnikenwerve 43 B-8000 Brugge Belgium)for the use of the Trimble GEO XH(2005 series)GPS 

主　　题：geographic study geospatial data integration Google Earth 

摘      要：High-resolution images availableonGoogle Earth are increasingly beingconsulted in geographic ***,most studies limit themselves to visualizations or on-screen *** Earth allows users to create points,lines,and polygons on-screen,which can be saved as Keyhole Markup Language(KML)***,the use of R statistics freeware is proposed to easilyconvertthese files to the shapefile format[or‘.shp file format’],which can be loaded into Geographic Information System(GIS)software(ESRI ArcGIS 9 in our example).The geospatial data integration in GIS strongly increases the analysis possibilities.