NASA World Wind features
3D engine: world wind permits users to zoom for satellite altitude into any place of earth. This feature of worldwind also brings high-resolution LANDSAT imagery and it brings SRTM elevation data to get the visual experience of the earth by giving you feeling that you are actually present at that place. While developing this world wind software, much focus is made on ease of usability so that people of all ages are able to enjoy world wind. Worldwind has one simplified menu through which you can get features of this program. World Wind is designed to run in on latest PC hardware with 3D acceleration.
Land Sat 7: By making use of world wind, it is possible for you to zoom past blue marble and detailed seamless mosaic of LandSat 7 data can be revealed. LandSat 7 is a set of imagers from 1999-2003 at 15 m per pixel resolution. LandSat also contains other color bands like the infrared spectrum. Users are able to browse these sets. Any Updates and changes are inserted by world wind automatically. The resolution of LandSat 7 has the ability to shoe us our own city, landmarks and neighborhood. The LandSat 7 data set very large to fit on one machine so worldwind only downloads what you see and then stores a compressed copy on your pc for later viewing.
SRTM: By combining LandSat imagery with SRTM data, a dramatic view of the earth is displayed by World Wind. With this feature, users literally can fly around the world in any direction they want. Moreover, world wind exaggerated these views, due to which users can get the details easily.
NASA SVS: Goddard Space Flight Center created a collection of visually intense animations, which reveal various subjects like seasonal change around the globe and hurricane dynamics. Therefore, world wind makes use of these animations. Through world wind, any person can get the information of where the event occurs because world wind rotates automatically into view.
MODIS: MODIS produces a collection of time relevant information, which is updated everyday. MODIS records floods, dust, fires, storms, volcanic activity and storms. Therefore, world wind creates an easy customize view of this data. When we will click on any one of the color coded markers it downloads the full image of it and then displays it.
GLOBE: world wind has the ability of browsing through and it has the ability to display globe data whenever user wants. For instance, a user is able to download temperature of the world. You are also able to view cloud cover, rainfall, and barometric pressure.
Place names: world wind has the ability to provide you a catalog of capitals, cities, countries, Historical references, and towns. With this feature, you are able to find your town though it is big or small.
Visual tools: world wind includes various visual guides, which help the user’s experience like latitude and longitude lines, and very exact coordinate data. These helpers are toggled on or off and they can be viewable by turning on any of the world wind’s feature.
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