The EARTHscope (ES) is a new tool for displaying the profound, yet often invisible trends affecting global and local communities. It allows partner organizations to publish their information as engaging geo-stories: downloadable presentations that combine dynamic maps with supporting graphics, imagery, sound, and text.

ES is a project of the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) and an extension of Fuller's lifelong commitment to promoting world literacy about global problems, trends, and needs.
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Key Objectives

• Provide a digital publishing framework that facilitates learning, research, and public outreach
• Advance a much-needed standard for online "geo-storytelling"
• Allow anyone, anywhere with low-speed, dial-up access to the Internet to browse the
• EARTHscope Library and view the planetary situation using the EARTHscope interface.

• Display maps, keys, text, graphs, slide shows, and video clips
• Turn layers of map data on and off
• Pan maps in all directions, zoom from global to local view
• Animate changes over time

ES Partner Benefits

• Content comes to life with interactive multi-media
• Branded interface with web links
• Browser-based for wide distribution
• Quick download time