NASA World Wind
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| NASA World Wind | |
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 Screenshot of World Wind showing USGS Urban Ortho-Imagery of Huntington Beach, California
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| Developer | NASA Ames Research Center |
| Latest release | 1.3.1.1 / 26 May 2005 |
| OS | Windows 2000 & XP |
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| License | NASA Open Source license v1.3 |
| Web site | worldwind.arc.nasa.gov (http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/index.html) |
World Wind is a virtual globe developed by NASA for use on personal computers running Microsoft Windows. It overlays NASA and USGS imagery over 3D models of the Earth, and, having been recently added, Mars and the Moon.
The user can interact with the selected planet by rotating it and zooming in and out. An overlay of placenames and political boundaries is available. The software also contains a package to browse maps and other imagery on the internet using the OpenGIS Web Mapping Service.
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Datasets available
Low resolution Blue Marble datasets are included with the initial download; as a user zooms in to certain areas, additional high resolution data is downloaded from the NASA servers. The size of all currently available data sets is about 4.6 terabytes.
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Image/terrain datasets:
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Animated data layers: |
Additional layers
Additional data that can be projected onto the globe includes country borders, place names, and lines of latitude and longitude.
One of these layers, Biocrawler, available as an add-on, gives points of interest, with click-through links connected to Biocrawler. This example shows the Washington DC National Mall, with each ring representing a link to an article:
See also
External links
- NASA World Wind homepage (http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov)
- World Wind Central (http://www.worldwindcentral.com)
- World Wind Wiki (http://www.worldwindcentral.com/wiki/)
- Biocrawler points of interest layer (http://www.worldwindcentral.com/wiki/Biocrawler) from WikiProject Geographical coordinates (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biocrawler:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates)
- Worldwind cache pack download service (http://www.worldwinddata.com/) (caution: these are huge files)fr:World Wind
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