scholarly journals NASA WorldWind: virtual globe for an open smart city

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria A Brovelli ◽  
Candan E Kilsedar ◽  
Patrick J Hogan ◽  
Gabriele Prestifilippo ◽  
Giorgo Zamboni
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Interesting Application ◽  
Virtual Globe ◽  
Web Framework ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Open Source Framework ◽  
The Web

In this paper, we first present the open source framework NASA WorldWind. NASA WorldWind comes with two versions. The Java version is well established in the market and has many customers. There is now a new Web version, Web WorldWind, with many of the same features implemented and is already being used by government agencies, the European Space Agency having standardized on it. We describe here some of the features available in the Web framework. Additionally, we show an interesting application developed with NASA WorldWind and the possibilities it offers in the field of smart cities. Moreover, we illustrate some of the opportunities that this framework provides and the direction the community of people interested in open source for smart cities are following.

scholarly journals NASA WorldWind: virtual globe for an open smart city

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria A Brovelli ◽  
Candan E Kilsedar ◽  
Patrick J Hogan ◽  
Gabriele Prestifilippo ◽  
Giorgo Zamboni
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Interesting Application ◽  
Virtual Globe ◽  
Development Cycle ◽  
Open Source Framework ◽  
The Web

In this paper, the open source framework NASA WorldWind is presented. NASA WorldWind comes with two versions. The Java version is well established in the market and has many customers. On the other side the new version, which is the Web version, Web WorldWind, is still at the dawn of development cycle, with many features implemented and already used in several applications, with a great future ahead. Moreover, some of the features available in the Web WorldWind are listed and a short comparison with Cesium library is provided. Additionally, an interesting application developed in the smart cities context with Web WorldWind is described.

scholarly journals NASA WorldWind: virtual globe for an open smart city

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria A Brovelli ◽  
Candan E Kilsedar ◽  
Patrick J Hogan ◽  
Gabriele Prestifilippo ◽  
Giorgo Zamboni
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Interesting Application ◽  
Virtual Globe ◽  
Development Cycle ◽  
Open Source Framework ◽  
The Web

In this paper, the open source framework NASA WorldWind is presented. NASA WorldWind comes with two versions. The Java version is well established in the market and has many customers. On the other side the new version, which is the Web version, Web WorldWind, is still at the dawn of development cycle, with many features implemented and already used in several applications, with a great future ahead. Moreover, some of the features available in the Web WorldWind are listed and a short comparison with Cesium library is provided. Additionally, an interesting application developed in the smart cities context with Web WorldWind is described.

scholarly journals NASA WorldWind: virtual globe for an open smart city

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria A Brovelli ◽  
Candan E Kilsedar ◽  
Patrick J Hogan ◽  
Gabriele Prestifilippo ◽  
Giorgo Zamboni
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Interesting Application ◽  
Virtual Globe ◽  
Development Cycle ◽  
Open Source Framework ◽  
The Web

In this paper, the open source framework NASA WorldWind is presented. NASA WorldWind comes with two versions. The Java version is well established in the market and has many customers. On the other side the new version, which is the Web version, Web WorldWind, is still at the dawn of development cycle, with many features implemented and already used in several applications, with a great future ahead. Moreover, some of the features available in the Web WorldWind are listed and a short comparison with Cesium library is provided. Additionally, an interesting application developed in the smart cities context with Web WorldWind is described.

scholarly journals NASA World Wind: virtual globe for an open smart city

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria A Brovelli ◽  
Candan E Kilsedar ◽  
Patrick J Hogan ◽  
Gabriele Prestifilippo ◽  
Giorgo Zamboni
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Virtual Globe ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Development Cycle ◽  
Open Source Framework ◽  
The Web

In this article, firstly the open source framework NASA World Wind is introduced. NASA World Wind comes mainly with two versions. The Java version is well established in the market and has many customers. On the other hand the new version, which is the Web version, Web World Wind, is still at the dawn of development cycle, with many features implemented and already used in several applications, with a great future ahead. Following the introduction of NASA World Wind, the features available in the Web World Wind are listed and a short comparison with Cesium library is provided. Additionally, an application developed in the smart cities context with Web World Wind is described.

scholarly journals NASA World Wind: virtual globe for an open smart city

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria A Brovelli ◽  
Candan E Kilsedar ◽  
Patrick J Hogan ◽  
Gabriele Prestifilippo ◽  
Giorgo Zamboni
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Virtual Globe ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Development Cycle ◽  
Open Source Framework ◽  
The Web

In this article, firstly the open source framework NASA World Wind is introduced. NASA World Wind comes mainly with two versions. The Java version is well established in the market and has many customers. On the other hand the new version, which is the Web version, Web World Wind, is still at the dawn of development cycle, with many features implemented and already used in several applications, with a great future ahead. Following the introduction of NASA World Wind, the features available in the Web World Wind are listed and a short comparison with Cesium library is provided. Additionally, an application developed in the smart cities context with Web World Wind is described.

Web-Based Large-Scale 3D-Geovisualisation Using WebGL

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Christen ◽  
Stephan Nebiker ◽  
Benjamin Loesch
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Interactive Visualization ◽  
Web Browsers ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Virtual Globe ◽  
Open Source Framework ◽  
The Creation

In this paper, the authors present the OpenWebGlobe project (http://www.openwebglobe.org). The authors also discuss the OpenWebGlobe SDK. OpenWebGlobe SDK is an open source framework for creating massive 3D virtual globe environments and interactively exploiting them in web browsers using HTML5 and WebGL, allowing for the creation of large scale virtual 3D globes with detailed contents and their interactive visualization directly within a broad spectrum of Web browsers.

scholarly journals The Use of Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Images and Open-Source Software for Cultural Heritage: An Example from Paphos Area in Cyprus for Mapping Landscape Changes after a 5.6 Magnitude Earthquake

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 1766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marios Tzouvaras ◽  
Dimitris Kouhartsiouk ◽  
Athos Agapiou ◽  
Chris Danezis ◽  
Diofantos G. Hadjimitsis
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Synthetic Aperture Radar ◽  
Open Source ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
Synthetic Aperture ◽  
Active Sensors ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
Aperture Radar

Active satellite remote sensors have emerged in the last years in the field of archaeology, providing new tools for monitoring extensive cultural heritage landscapes and areas. These active sensors, namely synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites, provide systematic datasets for mapping land movements triggered from earthquakes, landslides, and so on. Copernicus, the European program for monitoring the environment, provides continuous radar datasets through the Sentinel-1 mission with an almost worldwide coverage. This paper aims to demonstrate how the use of open-access and freely distributed datasets such as those under the Copernicus umbrella, along with the exploitation of open-source radar processing software, namely the sentinel applications platform (SNAP) and SNAPHU tools, provided respectively by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the University of Stanford, can be used to extract an SAR interferogram in the wider area of Paphos, located in the western part of Cyprus. The city includes various heritage sites and monuments, some of them already included in the UNESCO World Heritage list. The interferogram was prepared to study the effects of an earthquake to the buildings and sites of the area. The earthquake of a 5.6 magnitude on the Richter scale was triggered on 15 April 2015 and was strongly felt throughout the whole island. The interferogram results were based on Differential Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (D-InSAR) methodology, finding a maximum uplift of 74 mm and a maximum subsidence of 31 mm. The overall process and methodology are presented in this paper.

III. Metallurgy: The proposed French metallurgy programme for Spacelab

1978 ◽  
Vol 361 (1705) ◽  
pp. 165-174 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Growth ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Zero Gravity ◽  
Industrial Community ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Space Experiments ◽  
The Government ◽  
High Level

The call for ideas for the first Spacelab payload issued from the European Space Agency (E.S.A.) obtained in France a fairly high level of success from the government agencies but almost no answers from the industrial community. This situation, which arose despite knowledge of some early but very promising results of the first space experiments, seems to be correlated with the absence of any guarantee about the future Law of Space, and consequently has orientated the French metallurgy experiments to more academic and less applied speculations. We shall describe the actions of the French Space Agency (C.N.E.S.) to decide which experiments would be officially supported by C.N.E.S. if accepted by E.S.A. In the particular field of metallurgy, six proposals were so selected which have been proposed to E.S.A. for the first Spacelab payload. We shall present the arguments which defended those proposals and as a function of the preliminary analysis of some similar U.S. experiments we shall try to detect some of the possible difficulties in performing them and to foresee the main results which we expect. Special emphasis will be laid on the thermodiffusion and nucleation experiments, the study of which is basic for many crystal growth or metallurgy experiments in a zero-gravity environment.

scholarly journals WebWorldWind, achievements and future of the ESA-NASA partnership

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yann Voumard ◽  
Paulo Sacramento ◽  
Pier Giorgio Marchetti ◽  
Patrick Hogan
Keyword(s):  
European Space Agency ◽  
Use Cases ◽  
First Year ◽  
Virtual Globe ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Research And Education

Web World Wind is a 3D virtual globe API for HTML5 and JavaScript developed by NASA with support of the European Space Agency (ESA) and other partners. In this paper, Web World Wind is compared to other virtual globe technologies and the results of the first year for the on-going collaboration between ESA and NASA on Web World Wind development are presented. Concrete examples built with the newly introduced features are highlighted and put in relation to possible research and education use cases. Finally, the next steps and roadmap are briefly introduced.

scholarly journals Utilization of BEAM and NEST open source toolboxes in education and research

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 37-48
Author(s):  
Markéta Potůčková ◽  
Eva Štefanová
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Satellite Images ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
Radar Data ◽  
Optical Data ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Data Formats ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Sar Imagery

European Space Agency (ESA) provides several open source toolboxes for visualization, processing and analyzing satellite images acquired both in optical and microwave domains. Basic ERS & Envisat (A)ATSR and MERIS Toolbox (BEAM) was originally developed for easier handling ENVISAT optical data. Today this toolbox supports several raster data formats and datasets collected with other EO instruments such as MODIS, AVHRR, CHRIS/Proba. The NEXT ESA SAR Toolbox (NEST) has been created for processing radar data acquired from different satellites such as ERS 1&2, ENVISAT, RADARSAT or TerraSAR X. Both toolboxes are suitable for the education of the basic principles of data processing (geometric and radiometric corrections, classification, filtering of radar data) but also for research. Possibilities for utilization of these toolboxes in remote sensing courses based on two examples of practical exercises are described. Use of the NEST toolbox is demonstrated on a research project dealing with snow cover detection from SAR imagery.

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