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Degrees. This Can Be Seen in The Red Box. Decimal Degrees Is The Preferred Method of Expressing

This document provides instructions for navigating and using key features in Google Earth Pro. It explains how to change settings like displaying decimal degrees for latitude and longitude coordinates. It describes how to navigate around the map by dragging, zooming, and using the overview map and search/placemark boxes. Placemarks can be added to mark sample points with their latitude and longitude coordinates.

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Degrees. This Can Be Seen in The Red Box. Decimal Degrees Is The Preferred Method of Expressing

This document provides instructions for navigating and using key features in Google Earth Pro. It explains how to change settings like displaying decimal degrees for latitude and longitude coordinates. It describes how to navigate around the map by dragging, zooming, and using the overview map and search/placemark boxes. Placemarks can be added to mark sample points with their latitude and longitude coordinates.

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Figure 2. For windows users

Click Properties or Tools in the menu that will look like the image below. The first setting

that needs to be change is under the 3D View tab. Under Show Lat/Long select Decimal

Degrees. This can be seen in the red box. Decimal Degrees is the preferred method of expressing

coordinates of latitude and longitude.

Figure 3.

Underneath the box for show Lat/Long is a checkbox. If your computer cannot handle the

high-resolution terrain, it will take longer to create, though it will not affect your work. Next,

move to the Navigation tab and go to the box titled Navigation. Select Do not automatically tilt

while zooming. Next, select Apply from the bottom of the menu screen and then OK to
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close out of the screen. Click on View from the dropdown menu at the top of the screen and turn

on Overview Map and Scale Legend.

Figure 4.

Navigating around the map can be done by clicking and dragging the cursor within the

map screen. Zooming can be done by scrolling in and out with the mouse/trackpad, or by

selecting the (+) or (-) on the right side of the screen, which can be found under the Compass. On

Figure 6, looking at the bottom right; the Overview Map can be seen, along the information

which is detailed by date of the visible satellite imagery, the latitude and longitude coordinates,

the elevation of the cursor, and the elevation in which the user is above the surface.
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Figure 6. Navigating the main window

From Figure 6, the Search box and the Places box can be seen in the red box. The Search

box allows you to input named landscape features (such as streams, volcanoes, etc.), addresses,

or latitude/longitude. When inputting a certain location, the latitude/longitude points appear like

this: 35.271661, -119.827718. The Places box is where you can find the place marks and lines

that have been created during the analysis.

Figure 8. Place mark at each of those latitude and longitude coordinates


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In determining the latitude and longitudinal of every sample point the researcher must

know the particular name of a place and where the place is located. The researchers input the

sampling points in the Google Earth Pro application to provide the points, which are the X and Y

coordinates of location. The coordinate pairs may be positive or negative, depending on the

coordinates. Typically, latitude is listed first then the longitude.

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