Now that's a brilliant idea — look at Google Earth's photos of waves from a research standpoint. A great lesson in how information leads to its own uses. #ddtb
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Google Earth's Lessons in Wave Mechanics
A close look at Google's virtual globe reveals almost unlimited examples of the way waves behave.
Google Earth provides a cornucopia of exotic images of our planet taken from above. For the most part, the focus of attention is on the land and the cities, roads and natural formations that it supports.
Today, however, Fabrizio Logiurato at Trento University in Italy says that Google's images of the oceans are just as fascinating.
Logiurato's interest is in the wave dynamics that the images rev…