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How to Use Google Earth Web as a Presentation Tool

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Google Earth isn’t just a cool navigation tool. You can also use it for presentations that involve real-life locations. The app already has a built-in feature just for that purpose.

Let’s say you’re a travel journalist and you want to be able to demonstrate where you’ve been around the world when pitching to new clients. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to create such presentations on Google Earth.

1. Get Google Earth and Drive

You can now use Google Earth on any browser , not just Chrome. If you’ve never tried the app before, you can find out more about it by visiting the Google Earth website. From there, hit the Launch Earth button to log in with your Google account.

Also, the app mainly uses Google Drive to store the projects you create, so it’s a good idea to set up an account before making your first presentation.

2. Launch Google Earth and Find the Projects Tool

Once you’ve signed in to Google Earth, our digital planet will appear on your screen with several features on the left sidebar, such as map styles and Google’s tool for measuring area and distance .

Select the Projects icon and, assuming you don’t already have a presentation, click Create and then choose whether you want to store the new project on Google Drive or as a KML file—it stands for Keyhole Markup Language, an XML file that contains geographic information.

As the easiest method, go for the Google Drive option and wait for Google Earth to link up to your account. Once you create a project, click its Pin to Earth icon to make sure you can always find it when logging in.

3. Give Your Project a Title and Description

Take the time to name and describe your new presentation by filling in the two available fields. If nothing else, they can help you remember the purpose or details of each project.

On your dashboard, you have a few more options above your title and description. You can share, reload, or delete the project, as well as copy it, download it as a KML file, or report it for inappropriate content, the last being more useful to visitors.

4. Add Places to Your Google Earth Presentation

Under your project’s title and description is the New feature button, which opens a menu of many more tools. To pin locations of interest, you can either use Search to add place or Add placemark . The latter is especially good if the location you want is too obscure for Google to find.

A location you searched for will already display some details provided by Google, which you can change by clicking Replace . Your own placemarks are blank from the start.

A third option is to zoom in on a location, enter Street View , and click Capture this view . You can then add the place to your project after editing its details. Use this to get Google Earth’s satellite view of your house or a landmark from your travels worth sharing.

All three methods let you edit the locations you choose. This includes:

• Naming and describing them
• Editing the typeface
• Adding images and videos
• Personalizing your placemark’s icon and color
• Choosing the size of your info box
• Previewing the location’s display

When happy, just click the Back arrow—Google automatically saves your project. Every location you add to your presentation joins its list of markers, which you can easily select and edit as necessary.

5. Connect Places With Lines

As a travel journalist, you may want to demonstrate the number of flights you took from your home base in the last year or the stops you made during a long road trip. You can use Google Earth’s lines tool for this.

To do so, select Draw line or shape from the New feature menu. Click the places you want to mark, and lines will automatically appear between them.

Hit Enter to save the shape you made and access its editor. If you close your shape into a square or triangle, for example, you can customize its filling as well as its outline.

Another tool to make your project interesting is the Tilt the view button, which shifts your angle between 2D and 3D. While in a place’s editor, choose the best viewpoint and click Capture this view —that’s what you’ll get when you jump to the location in your presentation.

6. Add Slides to Your Presentation

If you take pictures on your travels, you can add them to your Google Earth presentation to share the people and scenery you encounter and create stories from your travel writing.

In the New feature menu, select Fullscreen slide . Upload your image or video, add whatever text you want, choose a background color, and preview the slide.

Add several of these visuals throughout the presentation to enrich the experience. This is especially useful for more creative projects on Google Earth , like teaching or planning a book.

7. Move Your Presentation’s Features Around

When you have all the places, lines, and slides you need for your project, hold and move each item up or down the list to adjust its order.

The presentation will play from the top to the bottom, so how you lay out all your items affects the impact and flow of your presentation.

If you want to skip an item when presenting, click the Hide feature icon next to it. To bring it back, use the same icon.

Note that you can also create folders through the New feature menu, but they interfere with the presentation, so you’re better off using them to store unused items instead of hiding them individually.

8. Present Your Project

With everything in order, hit the Present button. Unfortunately, Google Earth isn’t PowerPoint, so you can’t automate or speed up transitions, animate text and images, and so on. There are also limits to how often Google Earth is updated .

However, you still end up with a very cool presentation that flies from place to place around the globe, occasionally broken up by slides that could contain photos or even graphs, depending on what you’re presenting as a travel journalist.

Keep in mind that jumping between locations can be dizzying, so choose your presentation’s items carefully, as well as how much detail you add to them and what view you capture for each place.

Take Projects to the Next Level With Google Earth’s Presentation Tool

While there are many better options when it comes to presentation design software, Google Earth is one of the best tools for visualizing geographic themes.

Whether your interest is travel, ecology, history, or culture, keep learning how Google’s advanced map features can deliver the most engaging experience possible.

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How to Use Google Earth to Enhance Your Presentations

I’m a frequent user of Google Earth to help enrich my presentations in front of large and demanding audiences. When introducing a new and exotic location, I find nothing beats an attractive and useful map or satellite image.

How many times have you watched a travel video wishing they’d included a map to provide some idea of location? — especially in these days of exploding numbers of YouTube travel vloggers!

How Can You Provide Geographic Context in Presentations?

Television news studios have been doing this for ages, and now you have the tools to do it yourself. What do I mean?

How many times have you seen a news story where the camera appears to zoom towards a particular location on earth as an intro shot? In the old days, this would have been nearly impossible for an individual at home with their own computer.

Here’s a quick example of the type of geographic context I like to provide in my own travel videos .

Google earth provides excellent tutorial videos .

Introducing satellite fly-overs in your presentations can be daunting at first.  Once you begin to experiment with the tools available, I think you’ll begin to see that it is time well spent.  I would say that you could produce your first Google Earth fly over in a couple of hours.

It took me days of experimenting when I first began to use Google Earth Pro, but I didn’t have the benefit of the excellent video tutorials that Google provides today.  

Google Earth Tutorial: Intro to Creation Tools

Here’s a short tutorial intro to an excellent series of videos on a simple approach to incorporating satellite images into your own presentations:

In my work, I frequently use Google Earth Pro to produce video flyovers.  I really enjoy the fact that I can zoom into any location on earth and, if the resolution of the image is good enough, I can take my audience on a quick tour by following a particular geographic feature such as a shoreline or river, circling a mountain peak, or hopping from one island to the next. Pro is a free stand alone program that you can download onto your system.

Here’s one of my own short videos as an example. I’ve used Google Earth Pro to provide visual context to each location in the area surrounding Cape Town, South Africa. This is one of our favorite cities in the entire world with its stunning scenery and lovely climate.

If you don’t want to set up Google Earth Pro on your computer, you have an easy solution:  Google Earth Studio.

Google Earth Studio is Quick and Easy

Google has added a user-friendly way of producing animated fly-overs using google earth studio, which works directly in the chrome browser. .

Here’s a quick video introduction, the first of a series on using Google Earth Studio. 

Tips on Using Google Earth Studio

Tip #1 – my number one tip for google earth studio:.

In order to use them, you have to take all those hundreds of images and import them into your video editing program.

Once in my editing program (I use PowerDirector), I find that the duration for each jpeg has to be extremely short if you want to have a properly paced video that doesn’t drag along at slow speed. 

My second tip – watch some good tutorial videos before going whole hog on your own production!

You can literally save yourself hours and hours of experimenting by learning from the pros. 

Cinematic Affects using Google Earth Studio 

Here’s a great intro from TMS Productions on using Google Earth Studio in films and presentations. In this case TMS imports the images into Adobe After Effects, but you could do the same using any video editing software (I use Cyberlink Power Director – powerful yet user friendly).

Google Earth View Provides Thousands of Stunning Images

For a quick intro check out this video:

Many of these images have an other worldly quality to them – with amazing colors, textures, and shapes that verge on the abstract. For adding visual interest to your presentations they are hard to beat!

Google Earth View provides an excellent source for stunning images, with over 2,000 images to choose from.  Not only do these satellite images make great wallpaper for your computer screen, they can make great full frame slides to use in your presentations! 

As you can see there are thousands of locations available throughout the the world, and half the fun is clicking on these dots to see what comes up. Don’t be surprised if you get totally distracted!

Best of luck with producing your own images and videos using these exciting tools to provide geographic context and stunning visuals in your own presentations.

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Adding Google Earth to PowerPoint – Another Method

I recently received a request for help from one of my readers regarding Google Earth and PowerPoint.  The reader wanted to know how to put a Google Earth tour into PowerPoint.  This website gets lots of hits from folks wanting to learn how to embed Google Earth into their presentations, but Google hasn’t made it easy.  Therefore, I’ve put together a tutorial for one method, but first it might be helpful to clear up a few things.

• Google Earth Tours – Yes, you can create and save tours.  However, the files that are created are KMZ files that can only be opened in Google Earth.  These are NOT video files, and they cannot be easily imported into another program.
• Embedding Google Earth – Right now there is no good way to get Google Earth to play in a PowerPoint slide.  You could create a link on your slide that opens a KMZ file outside of PowerPoint in Google Earth itself.  You could also embed a web page that has the Google Earth plug-in for web enabled, but that get’s to be more complicated than it’s worth.

I’ve already demonstrated how it’s possible to add PowerPoint slides to Google Earth .  However, I still get inquiries for the other way around – adding Google Earth to PowerPoint, even though the two points above make it difficult, if not impossible.   Well, there are a couple of ways, but they’re not perfect.  The first involves just exporting static images from Google Earth and putting those images into your slides.  The other involves video screen capture.  Here’s how it’s done… First, you need some sort of screen capture program that will save your work as a standard video file.  Jing is great, but the free version only saves as a Flash SWF file, which won’t work with PowerPoint.  I recommend the free CamStudio , which is a simple, lightweight screen capture program.

Using screen capture you don’t even need to create a Google Earth tour.  You simply start the capture program recording, then visit the sites you want in Google Earth.  Once you’re done, save the screen capture as an AVI file, which can be imported into PowerPoint.  Here is a video demonstration…(Note – the tutorial starts as soon as you click the link)

If you would like to see a larger version of the tutorial you can do so here at this link .

The video on the tutorial is a bit jerky because I was running both Adobe Captivate and Camstudio. Trust me, though. The final product is very smooth and works very well. If you would like to see the actual video that I recorded in this session it’s available on YouTube here…

One of the other benefits of this method is that it will work without an Internet connection. Everything is self-contained to your PowerPoint presentation.

Of course, you could eliminate the screen capture step by subscribing to Google Earth Professional. It has a way of exporting AVI files directly from the program. However, it’s pricey – nearly $500 per year for subscription. This method will probably work just as well unless you want broadcast quality.

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Someone is copying your articles: http://powerpointfan.blogspot.com/2010/04/add-google-earth-to-powerpoint.html

Interesting…looks like they copied all of my PowerPoint articles wholesale. Even the internal reference links have been copied. Unfortunately, commenting is disabled on that site. If they are going to steal my content so unabashedly, I doubt they would respond to a comment or an e-mail.

Thanks for bringing it to my attention, though.

Thanks a lot for the tutorial! It helped a lot 🙂

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More intense fire weather due to climate change is implicated as a key driver of recent extreme wildfire events. As fuel stocks, the roles of vegetation and its phenology change in wildfire dynamics, however, are not fully appreciated. Using long-term satellite-based burned areas and photosynthesis observations, we reveal that an earlier peak photosynthesis timing (PPT) potentially acts to escalate subsequent wildfires, with an increase in the global average burned fraction by 0.021% (∼2.20 Mha) for every additional day of PPT advancement. Satellite observations and the Earth System modeling consistently show that this fire escalation is likely due to intensified drought conditions and increased fuel availability associated with the climate feedback arising from earlier PPT. Current fire-enabled dynamic global vegetation models can reproduce the observed negative correlation between PPT and burned area but underestimate the strength of the relationship notably. Given the continued PPT advancement owing to climate change, the bioclimatic effects of vegetation phenology change suggest a potentially pervasive upward pressure on future wildfires.

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How to build customized Power BI dashboards with user insights data in External ID

Sharon Rutto

August 27th, 2024 0 1

The user insights feature is generally available (GA) in Microsoft Entra External ID external tenants. It is accessible via Microsoft Graph APIs, which are currently in beta, or through prebuilt dashboards in the Microsoft Entra admin center. User insights dashboards provide organizations with valuable insights into user behavior and patterns within customer-facing applications. You can query and analyze user metrics such as total user count, monthly active users (MAU), daily active users (DAU), newly added users, authentications, and multifactor authentication (MFA) usage.

Custom dashboards with Microsoft Graph API

The out-of-the box dashboards in the Microsoft Entra admin center provide easy-to-digest graphs and charts but have limited customization options. Microsoft Graph APIs enable you to build powerful, customized dashboards with data tailored to your specific needs and preferences. This has some advantages:

• Flexibility: You can integrate with other data sources to present your data in a way that aligns more with your business objectives.
• Enhanced visualization: You can have richer and more interactive visual representations of your data.
• Complex query handling: You can apply advanced filters, aggregations, and calculations to your user insights data and get more granular and accurate results.

User insights APIs are summarized into daily and monthly data, offering varied insights tailored to different needs:

• Daily APIs: Monitor daily fluctuations in user activity; perfect for recognizing immediate changes, tracking sudden spikes in requests and authentications, or evaluating the impact of daily marketing campaigns and product updates.
• Monthly APIs: Gain a broader understanding of user behavior trends and retention across extended intervals, beneficial for gauging the success of long-term strategies and initiatives.

Example dashboards you can build

• Seasonal trends: Visualizing seasonal trends can help in strategic planning and forecasting. For example, heatmaps showing user activity, sign-ups, or authentications by day of the week or month, can help identify high-traffic periods. This dashboard can help identify patterns and trends in user activity, enabling more effective resource allocation.
• Anomaly detection: This dashboard can show the number and frequency of unusual or suspicious events in your applications, such as failed sign-ins, sign-ups from unknown locations, or spikes in user activity. You can use this dashboard to monitor application security, troubleshoot issues, and respond to incidents.

Build your own user insights dashboard

Let’s explore how to build a customized Power BI dashboard using user insights Microsoft Graph APIs.

Prerequisites

• External tenant – To access user insights data, you must have an external tenant. If you already have an Azure subscription, use this quickstart to create an external tenant. If not, you can sign up for a 30-day free trial here .
• Registered app(s) – User insights collects and aggregates data from your customer-facing applications. Ensure you have at least one registered app with sign-in and/or sign-up activity.
• Power BI – For the purposes of the example in this blog post, we will use Power BI to visualize the data. You can use Power BI desktop or Power BI service . Alternatively, you can choose any other analytical tool you prefer.

Setting up External ID

• Confirm you’re in your external tenant – In Microsoft admin center , go to Identity > Overview > Manage tenants . Confirm your external tenant is the current tenant you’re in.

Register an app for authorization – To securely access Microsoft Graph APIs, you need to register an app that will be used to generate access tokens for authorization. Go to Identity > Applications > App registrations to create one as outlined here .

Configure API permissions for Microsoft Graph – Add the necessary API permission Insights-UserMetric.Read.All to the registered app from step 2. Follow the instructions provided here . Keep in mind that the access token you generate will only be valid for one hour. To manage this, you can create a function in Power Query to check for token expiration and automatically refresh it.

Creating a Power BI report

Once you have successfully set up your tenant, you can now create a Power BI report using custom connectors to fetch user insights data. Here’s how you can connect Power BI to Microsoft Graph and build your report .

Transforming and visualizing data

Power BI comes with Power Query Editor that can help you clean and shape your data. You can remove unnecessary columns, handle missing values, and apply transformations such as merging, grouping, filtering, and many more.

• Transform and model your data – Once you have pulled all the data you need from the user insights APIs, transform and model your data to suit your needs. Go to Home > Transform data to use Power Query Editor.

• Visualize your data – Build engaging reports and dashboards once your data is ready for use. Power BI offers a range of visual elements to help you represent your data effectively. The example below shows a summary of user activity with daily and monthly growth trends.

Let’s recap

In this blog post, we explored how to build customized Power BI dashboards using user insights data in Microsoft Entra External ID. We went through accessing user insights data via Microsoft Graph APIs, setting up an external tenant and registered app, and using Power BI to connect to Microsoft Graph and build a report. We covered how to transform and visualize data in Power BI, enabling you to create insightful dashboards that can improve decision-making and security monitoring in customer-facing applications.

To test out other features in the Microsoft Entra portfolio, visit our developer center . Sign up for email updates on the Identity developer blog for more insights and to keep up with the latest on all things Identity, and follow us on YouTube for video overviews, tutorials, and deep dives.

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