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Archive for December, 2007

Modifying the maps using the Live Search Maps

Friday, December 28th, 2007

The Live Search Maps in addition to providing the maps containing useful information to the viewers also provides the ability for editing the maps and including in them the things that they find useful. Therefore, they can mark paths area etc on the maps. In addition to the marking these, you can also at any time edit these things.

For editing the maps at the later stages, the options that you can use are, changing the colors, width, style, or even altering the path or the area that you have previously marked.

Changing the width, and style of the path and the area

Worlds of Mars and Venus and NASA world wind

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

Mars Missions: As the name suggests it is related to the landings of space ships on Mars. Note that all these landings are related to NASA.

Let us consider the mons of Mars: What is mons? This is a frequent question, which ponders many of the users. Mons are nothing but a integral part of the structural features of Mars. It is the broadest volcanoes and even the tallest in the whole of the solar system. This mons is named Olympus. This mons is described very well by the scientists. These mons are very popular. After research was carried out it was found out that mons revealed only the albedo features and not topographic part. Telescopic images revealed that the feature, which was shown by albedo, is in reality a shield volcano. So the name Olympus was adopted to match with the shield or albedo feature.

Some easy to install Add-ons of NASA World Wind

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

Shiny Marble:

Shiny marble plug-in adds an effect of highlight to Earth water surface. This is a very important plug-n since we are considering the beautiful the plug-in looks due to this effect. Note that this is a version which is alpha channeled BMNG Bathy. This version is of the recent years.

How to install this Plug-in:

To install Shiny marble first download it and then haul the file to your World Wind Plug-ins directory.

Usage:

NASA World Wind benefits

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

First, you must be made aware of an interesting part that World Wind is basically an open source Software. One more specialty of World Wind is that it is an interactive type of software. It is a three dimensional software. It was basically developed by NASA staff and an open source community developers.

Some information about NASA World Wind: When you see World Wind with respect to surfing only then you can think in such a way you will feel that world wind is nothing but just a globe. In reality, this is not the case. World Wind allows the users to zoom any where in the world and even the outer space.

Some beautiful Add-ons of NASA World Wind

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

Montana Color Orthophotos:

This Add-on is related to the State of Montana. It displays a high-resolution map which is based on the Natural Resource Information System. The Natural Resource Information systems have a great variety of images with them. This Add-on displays high-resolution imagery. The resolution, which is shown by this Add-on, is up to one feet in resolution. The photos are sourced from the WMS server.

Moon Phases:

NASA world wind: see the world in a click

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

The worlds which are included in World Wind are very diverse and very prominent. All the planets are included in it. Satellite like Moon is also considered here. The information of all these Worlds is included. Individual information of the planets and the other celestial bodies are considered here. Let us consider these Worlds one by one:

First let us consider the World of Moon: Moon Earth’s moon is considered here. Yes, Earth’s moon is considered here. Earth’s Moon is viewable from Within World Wind. The version which is compatible with moon World is 1.3.3 or above.

World of Jupiter in NASA world wind

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

In this article the World of Jupiter is considered. Jupiter name it self suggests the massiveness and the giant size of this planet. Jupiter is definitely the king of the solar system. Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. The feature of World of Jupiter is that it is viewable form World Wind. Note that it can be viewed in the version 1.3.4 and above.

Some interesting plug-ins of NASA World Wind

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Big screen shot plug-in: This plug-in is related to the panorama style. In this panoramic approach, you can take high-resolution imagery. The resolution of this imagery is equivalent of taking pictures with a mega pixel camera that to digital. So your need of using a digital camera is broken and also you can view any image in such form in your home too.

Installation of this Add-on: To install this Add-on first download the big screen shot version 0.3. Then you can replicate the contents to your World Wind \Plug-ins directory. Note that this should be done before the loading of World Wind.

Servir-Viz

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

There are various utilities of server-viz for example it supports earth observation based services. The Earth observation based services are developed to observe earth‘s resources and its effect on mankind. The earth observation based services designed under the framework of global monitoring environment and security guidelines.

The Global monitoring environment guidelines: The global monitoring for environment and security guidelines are designed to address ineffectiveness of tropical information gathering. The GES services are a concept in which users and information provides gather timely, accurate global imagery data. This is necessary to form an environment and security policy.

Servir Viz: have some glimpse of entire world at your desktop

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Gross Decision Support: Servir support many decision support functionality for example it has GEOSS decision support option which helps to get information on various current issues for example it has disaster support system, ecology, weather, climate, bio-diversity and water resources etc. this enable you to analysis various disasters for example fires, floods, ecology and climate.

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