Colorado Nonprofit Offers Aerial Views of a Changing Landscape | Paul Andersen | Travel & Outdoors | NewWest.Net

Colorado Nonprofit Offers Aerial Views of a Changing Landscape | Paul Andersen | Travel & Outdoors | NewWest.Net: "But thanks to a new partnership, not everyone has to pay for a coveted spot, limited to four at a time, in EcoFlight founder Bruce Gordon’s single-engine Cessna.

Gordon’s “virtual tours” will soon provide links to Google Earth that he says will convey the impact of being on board.

The collaboration with Google Earth began in 2009 between Gordon and Wally Macfarlane of Geographics in Logan, Utah. Their first application focused on a survey of Montana’s beetle-infested white bark pine. A subsequent aerial study of pollution and trash in the lower Missouri River expanded the approach, coupling aerial photos with GPS locations."