Metallurgy From Above ? A Google Earth Perspective

Keywords: Pyrometallurgy, plant, photography, GIS, satellite images, Google Earth Google Earth is a piece of software able to display an interactive three-dimensional map of the world, combining aerial and satellite photography with maps, terrain, and user-generated geographical information systems (GIS). Many structural features of the planet, both natural and man-made, are of great interest to the mining and metallurgy field, and in this paper a study is made of the current state of the art of data accessible by Google Earth.