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Industry: WorldWide Telescope Released

posted by lxnyce on Tuesday May 13, @08:03AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the true-rumors dept.
Microsoft
As the Digital Earth Blog and Ogle Earth blog is reporting this morning, a beta version of WorldWide telescope has been released. You can grab the download directly from the MicroSoft site http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/. For more information and preliminary reviews, please visit the blog links above.

Rumor : WorldWide Telescope This Month

posted by lxnyce on Monday May 12, @10:46AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the rumors-that-no-one-wants-to-claim dept.
Microsoft
From the Map Room blog : "Digital Earth Blog notes reports that Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope may be released by the end of this month — or at least Bill Gates has been quoted saying that it will. I’ll be very interested to know the system requirements."

In case you are not familiar with World Wide Telescope, please check out this relevant story article.

WWJava on Multi-Touch Wall

posted by lxnyce on Friday May 09, @01:29PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the upcoming-technology dept.
Visual Simulation
The Earth Is Square blog has a nice summary and movie showing off WorldWind Java running on a multi touch surface. There isn't much of a summary, as the video speaks for itself, so head on over there to check out the video. The concept itself isn't really new, as it was presented here in February 06 using WW. Check out the related stories for posts we've done in the past relating to multi touch.

National Geographic Unveils Greendex

posted by lxnyce on Friday May 09, @01:20PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the making-the-web-greener dept.
Environment
Here is an excerpt of the announcement via the Spatial Sustain blog : "The National Geographic Society has teamed with the international polling firm GlobeScan to conduct a survey that measures and monitors consumer consumption patterns by country. The Greendex is aimed at giving consumers a better understanding of how people across the globe are adapting their consumption habits to make the world a more environmentally sustainable place."

For more information, please visit the Spatial Sustain blog.

Geospatial Web Services And Why Use Them

posted by lxnyce on Thursday May 08, @04:07PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the informing-the-masses dept.
Education
The ERDAS TITAN has a pretty informative write up on what geospatial web services are and why should we use them. Here is an excerpt from their writeup : "Geospatial consumers need to easily ingest geo-data into a variety of desktop, Internet and 3D virtual globe applications they use in their daily work. Impediments in data delivery brought on by access or performance issues are thorns in the side of GeoJoe trying to be efficient…

On the other end of the pipe, data authors and publishers want to rapidly distribute data to their consumers (i.e. their customers, clients, users, purchasers, general public, etc.). These folks, from aerial data providers to national mapping agencies to the one-man geo-shop, need to deliver data in varying complexities and want to guarantee that the data can be immediately absorbed into applications in use by their customers."

To read the rest, please visit the ERDAS TITAN blog.

Technology: Satellite images available for Disasters in both Canada and Myanmar

posted by gignacnic on Thursday May 08, @01:06PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the Geo-Disaster-Watch dept.
Satellites & sensors
The International Charter "Space and Major Disasters" founded by the European Space Agency has been activated for the heavy flooding in Fredericton (Canada) and the Cyclone Nargis in Yangon (Myanmar). Images are available for both events here for Fredericton and Yangon.

Industry: NASA Shows Knowledge Planet at JavaOne Conference

posted by Satri on Thursday May 08, @10:11AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the applied-knowledge-leading-to-decision-making dept.
Research
ecoresearch writes "At this year’s JavaOne conference in San Francisco, NASA developers showed that virtual globes are not only suited to explore geographic maps, but can also serve as rendering engines for other types of imagery. Tom Gaskins, who leads the NASA World Wind engineering team, demonstrated the first public Knowledge Planet prototype, a Java applet developed by the Austrian IDIOM Research Project that visualizes large document collections using a landscape metaphor. The peaks of the virtual landscape indicate abundant coverage on a particular topic, whereas valleys and oceans represent sparsely populated parts of the information space. The applet draws upon the extensive news archive of the Media Watch on Climate Change, which provides a continuously updated account of media coverage on climate change and related issues." Some related stories below.
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