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Monday, 28th August 2006

New Add-ons and Maps for NASA's Open Source 3D Digital Globe: World Wind

World Wind is a wonderful tool (free) from NASA's Learning Technologies. It's open source and volunteers are constantly offering new plug-ins and add-ons. World Wind Central is THE place to learn more, ask questions, and keep current with what's going on. This post from April and this SEW Blog post from last year has a bit more.

Here's a bunch of new add-ons released or updated in the past 30 days or so.

+ NOAA Coastal Risk World Wind Add-On Maps Released

The Coastal Risk Atlas (CRA) project goals aim at aiding hurricane preparedness efforts by providing the data and methodology necessary to conduct vulnerability assessments for the coastal United States.

+ South Africa Add-on

The South Africa add-on is a set of topographical maps covering all of South Africa, in addition a few areas also have othophotos. The data in this add-on was obtained by Madmappers from various sources. They then processed the data and in collaboration with FEF put it on servers for access by World Wind users.

+ Earth's gravitational anomaly add-on released

+ Global Poverty add-on released

These datasets show the global distributions of infant mortality and malnutrition.

+ Weather Data plugin released

The plugin decodes the weather data from METAR and plots the recently made temperature observations on the World Wind globe.

And a few from a couple of months ago not included in a recent update.

+ World Wind Science Suite released

This is the first of several science-related collections that will be put together and released for World Wind. This pack covers the following: * NASA Lightning Map * Crustal Thickness * National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) * NOAA Coral Reef Watch * NOAA Great Lakes Data * NOAA DART (Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis) * Chernobyl * US Vegetation Growth 1990-2005 * US Forest Coverage Type * US Arsenic Levels. The data from these add-ons comes from various sources. The author is working with several NASA, NOAA, and USGS groups to bring their data to the public. The rest of the data was found using the national atlas site.

+ Global Population add-on released

This is the global population distribution determined by Columbia University's Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center.

More? You bet!

about a month ago we wrote about several new add-ons including:
+ Imagery of Mars, Venus, and Jupiter (the Moon is also available)
+ Improved imagery of Earth
+ New "built in" services with real-time and historical earthquake data
+ Near real-time cloud formations

Here's the complete list of add-ons as of today. Remember, complete access to World Wind and all of these add-ons is completely free.


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