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World wind is an open source program developed and owned by NASA. It is n interactive program, which makes you able for exploring and viewing images of various places of the earth. World wind program is designed to run on windows operating system. This program consists of several datasets such as SRTM, blue marble and LandSat. By combining these datasets, this program gives you high resolution colored imagery of the planet in 3D form.

World wind is a wonderful program, which allows you zoom from satellite altitude to any place of the globe. Some Plugins have been made for world wind 1.3.2 and 1.3.3. But these plugins do not work with world wind 1.4 unless specified. Some of them are added in world wind 1.4. Now we will discuss which plug-ins are added in world wind 1.4.

3D cross section: This Plugin permits you for selecting a square portion of terrain and then viewing 3D cut out in a separate 3D window. Viewer is also able to apply ‘color scales’ shadows and light for the extracted maps.

NASA world wind Java SDK 0.6 has some excellent features like distance and area measure tools, view visual control layer that gives a GUI to tilt, pan, and look around.

World wind java SDK has released in 2007 and various applications are emerged and gathered on the WWJ demo page. These applications are used to explore the ocean depth, track satellites, visualize information clusters, and control camera flying in the sky. The university of Muenster institute for Geoinformatics utilized WWJ for the project of a multi-touch wall.

World wind is an excellent program developed by NASA. By using Microsoft visual C#.NET, Microsoft DirectX and Microsoft.NET, world wind allows anyone to go for a virtual tour of the globe, seeing 3D images of the globe collected by NASA satellites.

World wind issues are a database, which is used for various purposes by end-users, developers. Now we will discuss about what is the use of world wind issues for End-users. When you find a bug in world wind, you can discuss that issue on forums or discuss that issue in the chat room. However, developers are not able to monitor these places for all the time. For soliciting the attention of bug fixers, you can file a report to world wind issues. When you file a report to world wind issues, your report receives an everlasting web page of its own, where any person is able to give comment on the report, can ask questions, and take efforts toward solving it.

NASA World Wind is remarkable software that enables you to zoom from high satellite altitude into any of the locations on the earth. Thus, if you want to see the terrain of the earth in a rich three-dimensional effect, then you should not fail to install this amazing software on your computer. It gives you the feeling as if you are actually present there. Downloading the software and using it is very easy. To reduce the size of the initial downloading process, the Blue Marble Imagery is being taken off form the installer. The imagery will be downloaded as you start using the NASA World Wind.

WMS layer manager application reveals SDK WMS capabilities. This application includes a WMS layer panel, which permits you for accessing any kind of WMS layers and WMS server. For adding a server first, you have to click on “+” tab and then insert the server URL. When you will complete the process of WMS discovery, the whole list of layers is displayed.

Terrain profiler application displays the terrain profile layer including its different controls. With the help of this application, just with moving your mouse, you are able to view a actual-time segment profile graph to any place of the earth, in any scale like country, mountain range and continent. It is very useful application for exploring ocean floors in which bathymetry information demonstrates significant geologic features.

In this article, we will discuss about how to activate the new features of this version. In this version of world wind, many add-ons and plug-ins are added. This version has the feature of sun shading. For enabling this feature first we should go to ‘view’ menu and then click on ‘sun shading’. This version also has the atmospheric scattering feature, which provides world wind atmosphere and also provides realistic sunrises and sunsets as well. for enabling this feature first we must go into ‘view menu’ and then click on atmospheric scattering’.

Sea breeze includes a large ser of high resolution maps which depict a large collection of oceanic properties as well as characteristics. Sea breeze feature provides data categories which include seafloor, geology, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography, features and Bathymetry. Sea breeze add-on contains near about 600 maps which cover fifty chemical, biological and physical parameters of the seas and oceans of the world.

Sea breeze add-on permits users to visualize the intricate processes which underlie the behavior of planet’s earth’s biggest climatic and biological engine. This add-on is made to get oceanographic data and intuitive interface for the purpose of educational exploration of the properties of ocean.

Near Realtime earthquake marker: This add-on shows us marker points in WW in which earthquakes occurred.

Night-time add-on: With the help of this add-on we can see DMSP image of the globe at night.

Norway’s prehistoric hillforts: With the help of this add-on we can see the prehistoric hillforts. The icons include URL’s which has the description of hillforts. There are some hillforts URLs which contain digital photo of hillforts.