June 2005
Intermediate to advanced
568 pages
24h 7m
English
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Chapter 3, Mapping Your World
#24 Explore a 3-D Model of the Entire World
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Explore a 3-D Model of the Entire World Hack #24
NASA’s World Wind software lets you explore an unbelievable wealth of
geospatial imagery, rendered in 3-D in real time.
World Wind is a newcomer to the world of GIS software. Similar in premise
to the shiny but ultimately rather expensive Keyhole package (http://www.
keyhole.com/), NASA’s World Wind application allows you to explore a
real-time 3-D rendering of planet Earth from orbit all the way down to
ground level, using your keyboard and mouse to navigate. The package is
available for free—as in both beer and speech—and has access to over 20
terabytes of data, including Landsat and Terraserver imagery, USGS topo
maps, and much more. World Wind loads and caches its data sets dynami-
cally as you zoom in, so broadband and a fast graphics card are an absolute
must!
Getting the Software
First off, go to http://learn.arc.nasa.gov/worldwind/ and grab a copy of the
software. At 235 MB, it’s a hefty download, but that constitutes the “starter
set” of data needed by the application. Double-click on the .exe file, and it
will install like any other Windows application. Make sure you pick a loca-
tion on your hard drive that has plenty of space, because as you zoom
around on the globe and use various features, you will begin to download
and store a lot of data on your
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