NET-based version was an application with an extensive suite of plugins. As of 2015 a web based version of WorldWind is under development and available online. The latest Java-based version (2.1.0), was released in December 2016.
#NASA WORLD WIND MAPS LICENSE#
Though widely available since 2003, WorldWind was released with the NASA Open Source Agreement license in 2004. The program overlays NASA and USGS satellite imagery, aerial photography, topographic maps, Keyhole Markup Language (KML) and Collada files.
#NASA WORLD WIND MAPS SOFTWARE#
The WorldWind Java version was awarded NASA Software of the Year in November 2009. NET version, not a standalone virtual globe application in the style of Google Earth. The more recent Java version, WorldWind Java, is cross platform, a software development kit (SDK) aimed at developers and, unlike the old. NET Framework, which ran only on Microsoft Windows. As of 2017, a web-based version of WorldWind is available online. Organizations around the world use WorldWind to monitor weather patterns, visualize cities and terrain, track vehicle movement, analyze geospatial data and educate humanity about the Earth." It was first developed by NASA in 2003 for use on personal computers and then further developed in concert with the open source community since 2004. WorldWind allows developers to quickly and easily create interactive visualizations of 3D globe, map and geographical information. According to the website ( ), "WorldWind is an open source virtual globe API. NASA WorldWind is an open-source (released under the NOSA license and the Apache 2.0 license) virtual globe.
JavaScript (Web), Java (Android, Desktop Java SE, and Server), C# (obsolete Windows/.NET)Īnimation showing atmosphere and shading effects in v1.4 USGS Urban Ortho-Imagery of Huntington Beach, California in older version of WorldWind (1.2) Rapid Fire MODIS – Hurricane Katrina A cyclone moving across the Indian Ocean (on normal cloud cover – not Rapid Fire MODIS) Moon – Hypsometric Map layer Mars (THEMIS layer) – Olympus Mons Hurricane Dean in NASA WorldWind Washington DC, Wikipedia point layer – icons link to Wikipedia articles
The larger community can readily capitalize on this technology, building their own value-added applications, either open or proprietary.Screenshot of WorldWind showing Blue Marble Next Generation layer NASA World Wind includes access to a suite of US Government WMS servers with near real time data. NASA World Wind open source technology provides the basic elements for 4D visualization, using Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) protocols, while allowing for customized access to any data, big or small, including support for NetCDF. Whether the interest is weather science or climate science, emergency response or supply chain, seeing spatial data in its native context of Earth accelerates understanding and improves decision-making. NASA World Wind Java, and now NASA World Wind iOS for the iPhone and iPad, provides that technology. Likewise, innovation by academia and entrepreneurial enterprise alike, are greatly benefited by an open platform that provides the basic technology for access and visualization of that data. Innovation requires open standards for data exchange, not to mention ^access to data^ so that value-added, the information intelligence, can be continually created and advanced by the larger community.
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