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Slashgeo

NASA 5-Gigapixel Milky Way

Posted: June 4th, 2008, 2:39pm CEST by lxnyce

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SlashDot is currently discussing this new nasa mosaic. Here is their summary : "Today NASA unveiled a new infrared mosaic of our galaxy. The result of over 800,000 individual images collected by the Spitzer Space Telescope, it is the largest, highest-resolution, and most sensitive infrared picture ever taken of the Milky Way (and will likely remain so for the foreseeable future). Because Spitzer sees in infrared, it penetrates much farther into the galaxy, revealing previously hidden star clusters, star-forming regions, shocked gases, glowing 'bubbles' and more. The complete mosaic is about 400,000 by 13,000 pixels, and a 180' printed version is being shown at the American Astronomical Society meeting in St. Louis. A zoomable, annotated version of two different variants on the image (as well as some additional information on the science) is available at Alien Earths, a NASA- and NSF-supported education site." To be a part of the discussion, head on over to the SlashDot article. To make things easier for you GIS professionals, here are the images in reference to the mosaic : Single Images, not mosaiced : [www.spitzer.caltech.edu] Interactive Mosaic : [www.alienearths.org]
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Space Shuttle Discovery Launch update STS-124

Posted: May 30th, 2008, 6:50pm CEST

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Just reading up on details tomorrows Space Shuttle Discovery Launch. This mission is of interest to yours truly as friend and past neighbor in Florida, Air Force Col. Ron Garan is a mission...

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Slashgeo

WorldWind JavaOne Roundup

Posted: May 12th, 2008, 5:03pm CEST by lxnyce

Tags: nasa

A lot of World Wind news came out of the JavaOne conference last week, so I am going to summarize those here for one quick and easy source. JavaOne WorldWind Java Presentation Slides If you want to see what was presented at the NASA World Wind Java SDK 3D Earth in your Applications and Web Pages session, you can now view the power point file and see what was covered The power point also has several diagrams that explain some of the core features about WWJava. First Known Commercial Use of WWJava LandPrint.com is an interesting commercial enterprise, they are creating 3D models of the earth and make use of WWJava as the way the user selects what they want to have created. NASA World Wind Java Demo Applications and Applets List of live examples of WW usage NASA Presents Knowledge Planet at JavaOne Conference At this year’s JavaOne conference in San Francisco, NASA developers showed that virtual globes are not only suited to explore geographic maps, but can also serve as rendering engines for other types of imagery.
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FAA Aeronautical Charts In WorldWind Coming Soon

Posted: May 8th, 2008, 9:46pm CEST by lxnyce

Tags: nasa

The Earth Is Square blog brings us news about this new WorldWind layer. From their summary : "WorldWind forum member nlneilson and FEF are working to bring the FAA Aeronautical Charts to the masses. It is getting closer to becoming live, the data just needs to be processed and put online. Here is a sample of how it will look in WorldWind (screen shots are from WWJava)." For more information and a better preview, please visit the Earth Is Square blog.
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Line Of Sight In WWJava

Posted: May 6th, 2008, 9:20pm CEST by lxnyce

Tags: nasa

The Earth Is Square blog informs us that there is a ray casting and line of sight implementation in WWJava by way of Patrick Murris's blog. Here is an excerpt from Patrick's blog : "It is a common issue to be able to find out where in the world does a line intersect the terrain surface. The WorldWind Java SDK allows to resolve the intersection from the eye point of view using the pick process - based on drawing objects in unique colors, but that does not help much when you need to compute such intersections from another perspective, like for line of sight calculations." Please visit the links above for more information.
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NASA is Everywhere!

Posted: May 6th, 2008, 5:28pm CEST by lxnyce

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The VerySpatial blog points us to an article and flash demonstration site showing things in our daily lives discovered or advanced by NASA. It's worth a look to see how space technology trickles down into our everyday life. From their summary : "NASA has posted a pretty cool new site to help people understand how they have impacted everyone’s life in so many ways. It’s called NASA @ Home and City. They’re want to remind everyone that they’re not just about “space”. While a lot of their technologies really aren’t spatial (cosmetics, for example), there is an impressive display of geographic related materials they have impacted. Stuff from environmental cleanup and monitoring to simply travel technologies." Please visit the VerySpatial blog for more information and a link to the NASA demonstration.
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NASA Time Animation of Ionosphere

Posted: May 5th, 2008, 5:34pm CEST by lxnyce

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The Google Earth Blog has an article with this new animated layer for Google Earth from NASA. Along with this layer, the GE Blog also points out a couple of other layers that NASA has recently released. Here is a summary excerpt of this layer from the blog : "The ionosphere is used to bounce radio signals over the horizon for long distance communication. But, when storms occur on the sun's surface they can mess up parts of the ionosphere and disrupt ionosphere-based communications." Check out the article for more information.
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WorldWindJava SDK Alpha 0.5 Released

Posted: May 3rd, 2008, 5:38am CEST by lxnyce

Tags: nasa

The Earth Is Square blog has an article about this big release of the WorldWind SDK. To avoid duplication, please head on over to their website to see the huge list of features.
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WorldWindJava SDK Alpha 0.5 Released

Posted: May 3rd, 2008, 5:38am CEST by lxnyce

Tags: nasa

The Earth Is Square blog has an article about this big release of the WorldWind SDK. To avoid duplication, please head on over to their website to see the huge list of features.
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WWJava To Be Released at JavaOne 2008

Posted: March 28th, 2008, 2:45pm CET by lxnyce

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The Earth Is Square reports that the new WorldWind Java 1.0 will be released at JavaOne. From their summary: "NASA World Wind provides 3-D virtual globe technology that you can put in your applications. It’s a visual component based on the JavaBeans™ component architecture, with an extensible API and a friendly user interface that you can easily enhance or even replace. It can be used as-is or highly customized. You can put one or more in your programs or your web pages. In a web page, you can control it with the JavaScript™ programming language. It’s as good as it sounds; it’s what the world has been waiting for." Visit the Earth Is Square blog for more information.
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Open Street Maps in WorldWind

Posted: March 26th, 2008, 4:32am CET by lxnyce

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The Earth Is Square blog reports about this new plugin for WorldWind to ingest the OSM data. From their summary: "Yes, you can get some road data, for the US you have Topo maps. Or you can use the Virtual Earth plug-in. Or you can load shapefiles or your own data. But now we have a WorldWind XML that works in WorldWind.net to load the OpenStreetMap tiles in via a WMS server, all thanks to someone wanting to load the tiles in WorldWind Java. Open Street Map data is a perfect fit for WorldWind. Why? Because their goal is to make a global road map of the globe that is in the Public Domain and free for all to use without restrictions." For more information and relative links (including the plugin xml), please visit The Earth Is Square blog.
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