Google Ocean is a planned product from Google that will provide realistic 3D maps of the surface of the Earth's oceans. In January 2009 it was announced that Al Gore would be headlining a Google Earth event where a major announcement would be made. Speculation ensued that Google Ocean would be ready for launch at that time.CNET News: Al Gore headlining Google event: Google Ocean? (January 23, 2009)
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"Google will basically just provide the field and then everyone will come flocking to it. There will be peer pressure to encourage people to get their data out there." - Stephen P. Miller, head of the Geological Data Center at the Scripps Institution of OceanographyCNET News: Google diving into 3D mapping of oceans (April 30, 2008)
"We hope that one of the outcomes of Google Ocean will be an understanding of how much remains to be explored. We know far more about the surface of Mars from a few weeks of radar surveying in orbit than we know of the bottom of the ocean after two centuries." - Stephen P. MillerCNET News: Google diving into 3D mapping of oceans (April 30, 2008)
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Layers could include weather patterns, currents, temperatures, shipwrecks, coral reefs and algae bloomsCNET News: Google diving into 3D mapping of oceans (April 30, 2008)
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