Relevance of NASA World Wind, open source, in analysis and visualisation for the EO data and service providers Earth visualisation: some of the best apps from the WW Europa Challenge 2013 NASA WW Europa Challenge 2014

1. NASA World Wind
Virtual Globe Technology
and the WW Europa Challenge
Patrick Hogan, NASA – USA
Maria Antonia Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano –Como Campus – Italy
Raffaele de Amicis, GraphiTech - Italy
Peter Bauman, Jacobs University – Germany
Gabor Remetey-Fülöpp, HUNAGI – Hungary
37th WGISS Meeting hosted by NASA
Cocoa Beach/Cape Canaveral, 17 April, 2014
Presented by:

2. Outline
• Relevance of NASA World Wind, open source,
in analysis and visualisation for the EO data
and service providers
• Earth visualisation: some of the best apps
from the WW Europa Challenge 2013
• NASA WW Europa Challenge 2014
NASA World Wind Virtual Globe Technology and
the Europa Challenge. 37th CEOS WGISS Meeting,
Cocoa Beach/Cape Canaveral FL, 17 April 2014

3. Relevance of NASA WW in the
WGISS context
NASA World Wind Virtual Globe Technology and
the Europa Challenge. 37th CEOS WGISS Meeting,
Cocoa Beach/Cape Canaveral FL, 17 April 2014

4. Relevance of NASA WW in the WGISS context
Aligned with the interest of the EO data
community and service providers:
• Widening the EO user community
especially students and young
professionals!
• Empowering SMEs to use EO data
not only as consumer but supplier
• Offering Open Source apps and
facilitating Open Data to be widely
accessible even in the mobile device
environment (Android and iOS)
NASA World Wind Virtual Globe Technology and
the Europa Challenge. 37th CEOS WGISS Meeting,
Cocoa Beach/Cape Canaveral FL, 17 April 2014
Geospatial Web Enablement
OGC Sensor Web Enabled (SWE)
Spatial data connectivity

5. NASA World Wind
Virtual globe technology
enabling apps development via an
open source platform with emphasis
on interactive data analysis:
• Virtual Globe + Sensor Data = Geobrowser
• Native context (virtual globe) for spatial data
• Geobrowser for the FOSS4G community
• NASA Software of the Year, 2009
• WW User community www.WordWindCentral.com
NASA World Wind Virtual Globe Technology and
the Europa Challenge. 37th CEOS WGISS Meeting,
Cocoa Beach/Cape Canaveral FL, 17 April 2014
Relevance of NASA WW in the WGISS context

6. NASA WW ready to use!
• Digital Terrain Model (DTM):
• SRTM30Plus for bathymetry
(30”) arc-sec ~900m),
• SRTM3 v2 v4.1 (3 arc-sec, ~90m)
• ASTER (~30m),
• USGS NED (~30m, ~10m US only)
• IMAGERY:
• BlueMarble, Earth’s 12 Seasons (500m),
• Landsat (15m)
• MS Virtual Earth Aerial Imagery (1m)
NASA World Wind Virtual Globe Technology and
the Europa Challenge. 37th CEOS WGISS Meeting,
Cocoa Beach/Cape Canaveral FL, 17 April 2014
Relevance of NASA WW in the WGISS context

7. NASA World Wind
• Freedom to develop any functionality
makes World Wind suitable for
any application.
• Allows full control over the quality
and accuracy of both the spatial data and the terrain.
• Supports OGC compliant WMS servers for access to spatial data to
place anywhere on the globe surface.
NASA World Wind Virtual Globe Technology and
the Europa Challenge. 37th CEOS WGISS Meeting,
Cocoa Beach/Cape Canaveral FL, 17 April 2014
Relevance of NASA WW in the WGISS context

8. World Wind facilitates Innovation and Competitiveness
Provides the virtual globe for any geospatial data!
• Climate: Simulation tool for any Earth data
• Weather: Visualization tool for 3D time-series data
• Satellites: Technology for visually tracking satellites
• Satellite Data: Technology for delivering satellite data
• Aeronautics: European Aviation Safety Agency, Next-Gen ATC
• National security: Defense applications
• Natural Disasters: Emergency response
• Robotics: Virtual world for remote systems
NASA World Wind Virtual Globe Technology and the Europa Challenge.
37th CEOS WGISS Meeting, Technology Exploration Interest Group Session. Cocoa Beach/Cape Canaveral FL, 17 April 2014

9. Besides imagery and elevation data, it is possible to
locate any spatial data on the globe:
• Video-on-terrain
• 2D objects:
– Lines
– Polygons
– Markers
– Multimedia
– Etc.
• Browser windows
• 3D objects, built up
from geometric
primitives, as
parallelepipeds,
spheres, extruded
polygons, etc.
NASA World Wind Virtual Globe Technology and the Europa Challenge.
37th CEOS WGISS Meeting, Technology Exploration Interest Group Session
Cocoa Beach/Cape Canaveral FL, 17 April 2014
WW Platforms are: World Wind Java, World Wind iOS, World Wind Android
Version 2.0 of World Wind (JOGL v2) release next month
Relevance of NASA WW in the WGISS context

10. JSatTrak Example:
World Wind provides
the platform to visually
manage satellite activity
including analyses and
delivery of satellite data
NASA World Wind Virtual Globe Technology and the Europa Challenge.
37th CEOS WGISS Meeting, Technology Exploration Interest Group Session. Cocoa Beach/Cape Canaveral FL, 17 April 2014
World Wind facilitates Innovation and Competitiveness

11. National Defense
 US Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines
 US Aviation and Missile Research Development
and Engineering Center
 US Missile Defense Agency
 US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
 US National Guard for Katrina
 US White House Military Office
Private Sector International
 AGI/STK
 BAE Systems
 General Dynamics
 Lockheed Martin
 Motorola
 Northrop Grumman
National Labs
 Argonne National Laboratory
 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
 Los Alamos National Laboratory
 Oak Ridge National Laboratory
 Sandia National Laboratory
US Government
 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
 National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin. (NOAA)
 US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
 US Department of Defense (DoD)
 US Department of Energy (DoE)
 US Department of State, Haiti Disaster Response
 US Geological Survey (USGS)
A Sample of the NASA World Wind
User Community
 DLR
 ESA
 JAXA
 NATO
 PEMEX
 World Bank
 Governments
NASA World Wind Virtual Globe Technology and the Europa Challenge.
37th CEOS WGISS Meeting, Technology Exploration Interest Group Session
Cocoa Beach/Cape Canaveral FL, 17 April 2014

12. NASA World Wind Virtual Globe Technology and the Europa Challenge.
37th CEOS WGISS Meeting, Technology Exploration Interest Group Session
Cocoa Beach/Cape Canaveral FL, 17 April 2014

13. Visualisation:
selected best practices from the
WWEC 2013
NASA World Wind Virtual Globe Technology and
the Europa Challenge. 37th CEOS WGISS Meeting,
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14. IGO SOFTWARE S.L.
(Cáceres, Spain)
GLOB3 MOBILE INC.
(San Francisco, USA)
NASA World Wind Virtual Globe Technology and the Europa Challenge.
37th CEOS WGISS Meeting, Technology Exploration Interest Group Session
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EXAMPLES
https://www.dropbox.com/
sh/xu12w1qn9xqk2ii/yPiP
4048SI?n=26496157#lh:n
ull-WWJ_EST-WA.mpeg
Geomatics Lab –
Politecnico di Milano
(Como, Italy)

15. Geomatics Lab –
Politecnico di Milano
(Como, Italy)
NASA World Wind Virtual Globe Technology and the Europa Challenge.
37th CEOS WGISS Meeting, Technology Exploration Interest Group Session
Cocoa Beach/Cape Canaveral FL, 17 April 2014
EXAMPLES
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xu12w1
qn9xqk2ii/yPiP4048SI?n=26496157#
lh:null-WWJ_Historical_Maps.mpeg
A Social
World Wind Platform
http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd/
Laboratorio di Geomatica Polo
Territoriale di Como Politecnico di Milano

16. NASA WW Europa Challenge 2014
NASA World Wind Virtual Globe Technology and
the Europa Challenge. 37th CEOS WGISS Meeting,
Cocoa Beach/Cape Canaveral FL, 17 April 2014

17. • University Project
Build an application that serves the INSPIRE Directive and
uses World Wind. A team of three to five students, from a
single university, with any mix of undergraduate, graduate
and PhD students.
Each team must have a mentor. The mentor can be a
professor, an associate or assistant professor, or an official
lecturer at the same university as the team. For graduate
students, a single member team is also allowed.
• Professional SME Project
Small businesses can compete in the professional category
with the same criteria as above only there is no limit on
team members or any mentor requirement.
Europa Challenge 2014
NASA World Wind Virtual Globe Technology and the Europa Challenge.
37th CEOS WGISS Meeting, Technology Exploration Interest Group Session
Cocoa Beach/Cape Canaveral FL, 17 April 2014

18. Organizers
Presented by
Scientific Committee
• Patrick Hogan, NASA
• Peter Baumann, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany
• Maria Antonia Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Max Craglia, European Commission-JRC
• Keith Cressman, UN/FAO
• Suha Ulgen, UN/UNSDI
• Karl Donert, Eurogeo
• Gabor Remetey, Hungarian Association for
Geo-information (HUNAGI), Budapest, Hungary
• Bob Bishop, ICES Foundation, Geneve, Switzerland
• Raffaele De Amicis, GraphiTech
• Giuseppe Conti, Trilogis
• Thomas Bartoschek, University of Munster
Europa Challenge 2014
http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/
NASA World Wind Virtual Globe Technology and the Europa Challenge. 37th CEOS WGISS Meeting, Cocoa Beach/Cape Canaveral FL, 17 April
2014

19. University Teams Projects
Workshop and Award Ceremony at FOSS4G Europe
Bremen 15-17 July, 2014
Supported by Peter Baumann of Jacobs Univ.
Application deadline: by 31 May 2014!
http://www.foss4g-e.org/
NASA World Wind Virtual Globe Technology and the Europa Challenge.
37th CEOS WGISS Meeting, Technology Exploration Interest Group Session
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20. SMEs Teams Projects
• SMEs category – efforts led by Raffaele de Amicis
• Workshop and Award Ceremony at INSPIRE 2014
Conference in Aalborg, Denmark 16-20 June, 2013
• Application deadline: by 31 May 2014
http://www.foss4g-e.org/
NASA World Wind Virtual Globe Technology and the Europa Challenge.
37th CEOS WGISS Meeting, Technology Exploration Interest Group Session
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21. Just A Few Topics for the Europa Challenge
• Advanced Graphical three dimensional visualization of INSPIRE
compliant Atmospheric conditions both static and dynamic over time.
From simple spatial forms (isolines, grids, etc.) to live effects visualisation.
• Procedural Object rendering from INSPIRE compliant imageries (i.e. WMS
layers): visualization of three dimensional objects over specific areas of
the terrain, based on an analysis of image data and geometries taken from
remote image datasets: e.g. trees on forest area, ships on the seas,
buildings on residential/commercial/industrial areas.
• Interactive visualisation of INSPIRE natural risk zones, like areas prone to
flooding, earthquake, eruptions, landslides and avalanches with graphical
and mathematical simulations of these phenomena.
• Interactive visualisation of INSPIRE compliant urban furniture such as
water underground pipelines with detail visualization and editing.
• Advanced fire spread simulation based on INSPIRE compliant digital earth
elevation models, terrain type and weather conditions.
NASA World Wind Virtual Globe Technology and the Europa Challenge.
37th CEOS WGISS Meeting, Technology Exploration Interest Group Session
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22. Conclusions
1. World Wind, as open infrastructure, enhances competition, increases innovation, and
accelerates development of IT solutions.
2. World Wind 3D visualization technology gives any application the means to express,
manipulate and analyze data in a virtual representation of the real world.
3. World Wind provides unlimited opportunity for entrepreneurial solutions that serve
unlimited spatial information management needs for any desired functionality.
4. By contrast, Google offers an application with pre-determined functionality.
‘Flat’ satellite imagery
becomes a virtual world
Dynamic data comes ‘alive’
according to your needs
Your custom analysis tool
interacts with any data
NASA World Wind Virtual Globe Technology and the Europa Challenge.
37th CEOS WGISS Meeting, Technology Exploration Interest Group Session
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23. Special thank to all the people
involved in the Europa Challenge!
NASA World Wind Virtual Globe Technology and the Europa Challenge.
37th CEOS WGISS Meeting, Technology Exploration Interest Group Session
Cocoa Beach/Cape Canaveral FL, 17 April 2014