NASA World Wind features and basics
Visual Tools
However, NASA World Wind provides you this facility. You can toggle them on or off any time. Moreover, the visual tools can be viewed even if you have turned any other features on.
Landmark Set
this sis a set containing the 3D models of important structure around the world. These models almost exactly depict the real structures. By viewing these models you can also know bout most of the details of such structures.
Thus, if you want to know more about the structure of the Empire State building, you can simply view its images and 3D landmark model through NASA World Wind. Moreover note, that if the 3D models are not available for some important structure you can still view them as the place markers just like MODIS shows important places.
Frequently asked questions
what is NASA World Wind?
NASA World Wind is an open source program developed and owned by NASA. It is an interactive program and with the help of it you can explore and view images of different places on earth. NASA World Wind has, also covered some more worlds apart from earth. It is designed to run on a windows operating system. It features the LandSat, Blue Marble, SRTM, etc, datasets and by combining all these datasets, it can provide you high resolution true colored imagery of earth, and that to in the form of 3D.
What is the procedure for downloading NASA World Wind?
You can download the latest version of NASA World Wind, from the official website. The download and installation is very simple. Just click on the download link and the download will start and ideally it should proceed smoothly.
NASA World Wind is an open source program and therefore you do not have to pay anything for it. However, you should accept the terms and conditions for using it. Moreover, there are some requirements, which your computer should satisfy in order to run install and run it successfully. Therefore, you should better check and ensure that your computer has the required configuration. Only then you can download NASA World Wind successfully.
What is the use of the source code, do i need to download it as well?
If you are a general user, who wants to use NASA World Wind just for viewing imagery and exploring the world around you, you would not require the source code. The source code is useful only to the developers. You should only download the full install.
However, there is no compulsion as such, that the source code can be downloaded only by the developers. You too can download the source code if you wish to do so. In such a case when you download both the source code and the full install you need to copy the Data directory from World Wind full install directory into the source code directory. This you should do when you run the full install after you download it.
You can get more information about the source code and how to use it, in the “Source Code” section.
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