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NASA World Wind

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World Wind is a virtual globe (3D geospatial viewer) developed by NASA for use on personal computers running Microsoft Windows. The program overlays NASA satellite imagery and United States Geological Survey aerial photography on a 3D model of the Earth, Moon and Mars. (Venus and Jupiter are also available in the File menu, including the moons Io, Ganymede, Europa and Callisto through the program overlays, all these come without 3D elevation data)

The user interacts with the selected planet by rotating it and zooming in and out. An overlay of five million placenames and political boundaries is included. The software also provides the ability to browse maps and other imagery on the internet using the Open Geospatial Consortium Web Map Service, import ESRI's shapefiles and placemarks from kml/kmz files.

World Wind is written in C# and released under NASA Open Source license v1.3 [1]

1 Datasets available
- 1.1 Earth
  - 1.1.1 Image/terrain datasets
  - 1.1.2 Additional data layers
- 1.2 Extraterrestrial datasets
2 Forks and clones
3 See also
4 External links
5 News
- 5.1 alteviltech.com/blog - The Earth Is Square

Datasets available

Earth

Image/terrain datasets

Blue Marble Next Generation imagery - resolution: 500m/px
Landsat 7 imagery
- NLT Landsat (Visible & Pseudo Color) - 30m/px
- Geocover 1990 & 2000 (pseudo)- 15m/px
- OnEarth (visible & pseudo)- 15m/px
USGS imagery
- Digital Ortho (monochrome satellite photographs)- 1m/px
- Urban Area Ortho (montaged color aerial photography of many major US metropolitan areas)- 0.25m/px
- Topographic maps
Zoomit! imagery (community produced layer) 0.15-1m/px
- LINZ (montaged color aerial photography of New Zealand) 2.5m/px
- GSWA (Topographic and geological maps of Western Australia)
- US imagery (montaged color aerial photography of many major US metropolitan areas)
SRTM+ terrain data (includes bathymetry)

Additional data layers

Scientific Visualization Studio
MODIS
GLOBE
United States Naval Research Laboratory Real-Time Weather

Extraterrestrial datasets

Moon

Clementine (40xx - Colour, 30xx - Greyscale)
Shaded Elevation Map

Mars

MOC (Mars Global Surveyor - Mars Orbiter Camera)
MOLA (Mars Global Surveyor - Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter)
THEMIS (Mars Odyssey - Thermal Emission Imaging System)
MDIM (Viking - Mars Digital Image Model)

Venus

Magellan Imaging Radar (Color/Greyscale)
Shaded Elevation Map

Forks and clones

WW2D is cross-platform, free and open-source application based on Java and OpenGL technologies.
WW2D Plus One is an update to WW2D providing a 3D view.

Punt is a fork of the NASA World Wind project, it was created by two members of the World Wind community.

Dapple is an Open Source project created by developers at GeoSoft.