An open source virtual globe rendering engine for 3D applications: NASA World Wind

Pirotti, Francesco; Brovelli, M. A.; Prestifilippo, Gabriele; Zamboni, Giorgio; Kilsedar, Candan Eylül; Piragnolo, Marco; Hogan, Patrick

doi:10.1186/s40965-017-0016-5

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“…It currently supplies projected and atmospherically corrected Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) (Murchie et al, 2007) coverages for Mars and projected Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) (Green et al, 2011) coverages for Moon. The client side of the PlanetServer uses NASA's Web WorldWind (Pirotti et al, 2017) as its visualization engine. The server side relies on the Rasdaman Raster Data Manager (Baumann et al, 2018) to deliver hyperspectral data to the user by Web Coverage Processing Service (WCPS) requests (Baumann, 2010).…”

Section: Planetserver and Rasdamanmentioning

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Bridging the Gap Between Geographical Information Systems and Planetary Virtual Observatory

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Earth and Space Science

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Virtual Observatory tools are specifically designed for astronomical data, but they can be adapted to work with geospatial data by providing existing Geographical Information System tools with Simple Application Messaging Protocol interface. Open source QGIS package was chosen as a platform for this. The Simple Application Messaging Protocol interface was made with Python plug‐ins. Geospatial data were exposed to Virtual European Solar and Planetary Access via a dedicated German Astronomical Virtual Observatory Data Center Helper Suite server and several tables exposing existing Open Geospatial Consortium—compliant planetary services were published to Virtual European Solar and Planetary Access providing a variety of geospatial data types: vector data and spectral cube rasters, as well as Open Geospatial Consortium Web Map Service of planetary maps.

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Section: Planetserver and Rasdamanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bridging the Gap Between Geographical Information Systems and Planetary Virtual Observatory

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Rossi

Figuera

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Earth and Space Science

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“…An example is the recent Google Earth VR project that aims at providing people with VR experience over the Google Earth platform [62]. Another example is the platform for sharing user-generated content ( Figure 3) built over Nasa World Wind [63]. The collaborative platform, named Policrowd, visualizes the points of interest (POI) and related multimedia files (texts, pictures, sounds, videos), collected and contributed by the citizens through apps.…”

Section: Digital Globe Web Mapping Eramentioning

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Review of Web Mapping: Eras, Trends and Directions

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2017

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Abstract:Web mapping and the use of geospatial information online have evolved rapidly over the past few decades. Almost everyone in the world uses mapping information, whether or not one realizes it. Almost every mobile phone now has location services and every event and object on the earth has a location. The use of this geospatial location data has expanded rapidly, thanks to the development of the Internet. Huge volumes of geospatial data are available and daily being captured online, and are used in web applications and maps for viewing, analysis, modeling and simulation. This paper reviews the developments of web mapping from the first static online map images to the current highly interactive, multi-sourced web mapping services that have been increasingly moved to cloud computing platforms. The whole environment of web mapping captures the integration and interaction between three components found online, namely, geospatial information, people and functionality. In this paper, the trends and interactions among these components are identified and reviewed in relation to the technology developments. The review then concludes by exploring some of the opportunities and directions.

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“…GeoJModelBuilder is implemented as a desktop tool. Its graphical user interfaces (GUI) are integrated with the NASA World Wind [15]. NASA World Wind is an open source virtual globe rendering engine, which allows users to quickly and easily create interactive visualizations of map and geographical information.…”

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confidence: 99%