World Wind Geo: The Eclipse RCP Geobrowser

The Geospatial Web or Geoweb is a relatively new term that implies the merging of geographical (location-based) information with the abstract information that currently dominates the Internet. World Wind Geo is an experimental geo browser built on top of:

World Wind Java SDK - Allows developers to embed World Wind technology in their own applications.

Eclipse - Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes.

Goal of World Wind Geo: The Eclipse RCP Geobrowser is to close the gap between GIS & SIS (Scientific Information Systems) by incorporating low/med/hi resolution GIS datasets from multiple sources: NASA, MS Virtual Earth, and others with the java NetCDF library for plotting/subsetting capabilities of scientific data.

World Wind Geo has the following fetaures:

• Interactive 3D navigation.
• Full support for WMS 1.1.x and 1.3.x using wizards.
• Over 500 real time weather data sets from NOAA and the Navy Research Labs.
• Limited support for KML: Ground overlays, screen overlays, and placemarks only.
• Support for animated ground overlays to visualize events over time.
• Scientific Data Plot/Subset capabilities with NetCDF.
• Open source: built on top of the World Wind Java SDK and Eclipse frameworks.
• Highly extensible: It uses the eclipse plugin framework to extend the user interface.
• Multi platform: built on proven standards: Java and Eclipse.

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NASA World Wind

NASA World Wind is a graphically rich 3D virtual globe for use on desktop computers running Windows. It combines NASA imagery generated from satellites that have produced Blue Marble, Landsat 7, SRTM, MODIS and more.

Here you will find the World Wind SDK for Java. With this SDK, developers can embed World Wind technology in their own applications. The discussion and help forum for the World Wind Java SDK can be found at World Wind Central. (informally affiliated with NASA).

Requirements for using this graphic visualization software: a 3D video card with updated drivers is necessary. World Wind has been tested on Nvidia, ATI/AMD, and Intel platforms using Windows, MacOS 10.4, and Fedora Core 6.

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