Purdue Google Gadgets offer satellite data visualization for everybody
Purdue collects masses of satellite data for use by scientists and state and local officials, but anybody who uses Google now can share in some of this data cornucopia.
Two Google Gadgets -- a type of small Web application -- created by Purdue staff and students working for ITaP let users see a visual, animated rendering of cloud cover, cloud pressure and water vapor as they change over the entire country and individual states, along with wildfire threats in the Midwest, among other things.