The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has signed a deal to work with Google to jointly develop tools to visualize the various scientific datasets they have.
Under the agreement, the agency and Google plan to work together on research and development to join NOAA’s oceanographic, meteorological, biological and climatological data with Google’s software.
NOAA officials hope the wide availability of Google’s Internet tools will deliver visualizations of NOAA data to new audiences around the world. The agreement lists six topic areas in which the agency and Google may pursue cooperative research projects: (…)
NOAA and Google have worked together before, bringing a Great Lakes feature and various Oceanographic data to Google Earth, and other US government labs for projects like the Live Cloud Layer with the Naval Research Labs. Another win for Online Public Content!
via NOAA, Google partner on data visualization project — Federal Computer Week.
