EarthObserver App Reviews

Not what I was looking for but happy found it. I was looking for a app that would show all of the world mining areas from potash, iron ore, gold and rear earths. The one thing is the previous may be in the app and I have not found it yet. Theres a lot and its free.

Im not a geologist, but this is such a cool app! The maps are very interesting for anyone who loves the discovery channel, I love all the ocean floor maps!

Excellent app! Had some apparent user issues now it is fine

this app dont work

GREAT APP!! Best $1 I ever spent! Thank You

Maps are not detailed Cant zoom in to see basic details. Some areas bottled out or fogged out basically I bout a smoke screen

This new app is a wonderful and useful tool on the go!

Let me start by saying that I am already a very active user of LDEOs GeoMapApp, and it has helped me to locate high-resolution sonar data that I am currently using for my PhD research. Therefore, I was very, very excited when I heard this app was available. The amount of layers and datasets available to overlay on the basemap is astounding, and the app is surprisingly fast. I can easily zoom into an area of interest and within a few seconds, the image has updated to show me the data at resolution appropriate for that zoom level. A green rectangle around the data indicates that you can zoom in for an even higher resolution image. A red rectangle means you have already maxed-out the resolution. You also have options to highlight where higher resolution data has been incorporated into the basemap just like in the GeoMapApp desktop version. When looking at sea floor data, the low resolution predicted bathymetry data will be slightly darker, and higher resolution multibeam sonar data from ship track lines will be brighter. Within seconds of downloading the app, I was creating overlays with earthquake locations, getting actual depth estimates from the seafloor (a elevation in meters pops up when you click on the basemap) and saving out images. The one quirky thing I noticed is the camera icon to save out a JPG image. The camera icon is located on the menu tab, accessible by clicking the > button. If you click the camera icon, you see the familiar screen flash that lets you know a screen grab has been taken. It appears that all you have done is taken a screen grab of the menu, but it actually takes a screen grab of the data that was viewable on your screen right before hitting the > button. I found this a bit counterintuitive as it seems that having the camera icon on the actual map view would make more sense, though it would take up a slight bit of screen real estate. That said however, the screen capture features works very well and screen grabs are automatically saved in your camera roll. I cannot wait to get home and try this out on my iPad. I see this app being extremely useful not just to me, but to anyone in oceanography, geology, geophysics, or any type of earth science. Now, the next time Im in an impromptu meeting with my advisor sans computer and were discussing one of my focus sites, I can just pull out my phone and we can zoom right to to it!

Wow! This is simply amazing...the wealth of information and the various layers, colors, everything is outstanding. AND you can even take a snapshot of the screen...cool!

This has instantly become an essential app ... simply amazing.

Maps Illustrated w/ # of underweight children, carbon monoxide, human footprint, ocean floors, DAILY view from NASA... and more ! These nerds are awesome for making this & putting it up for free!

So much information in this free app. Great opportunities for students to make predictions & inferences and to draw conclusions.

I continue to explore this amazing application. Very well done! Congratulations. A terrific technical accomplishment.

This is an awesome app. I cannot believe its free. So much information is included. Thank you.

For Free or for money its Fantastic !

The amount of information this app provides is astounding. Very grateful to have this at my fingertips.

This is a great free program that gives one a lot of information about the earth. You can explore this app for hours. Recommended. Two items: 1) the map for some reason tends to jump to the South Pacific. 2) it would be very helpful to include a little button to call up a key to the data one is seeing (not the info page, but a color key). Really great job!

Very well designed app that is fun to explore and extremely useful for young earth scientists like me! Glad to have gotten the free release, but definitely worth paying for! Thanks!

Not sea of japan, but East sea!!!!!

I hardly ever review apps, but this one is exceptional. I plan to use it in my teaching this semester!