WebWorldWind, achievements and future of the ESA-NASA partnership

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1 Solenix Deutschland GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
2 ESRIN, European Space Agency (ESA), Frascati, Italy
3 Ames Research Center, NASA, Moffett Field, California, United States of America
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.2134v1
Published
Accepted
Subject Areas
Human-Computer Interaction, World Wide Web and Web Science, Software Engineering
Keywords
HTML5, WebGL, Virtual Globe
Copyright
© 2016 Voumard et al.
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Cite this article
Voumard Y, Sacramento P, Marchetti PG, Hogan P. 2016. WebWorldWind, achievements and future of the ESA-NASA partnership. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2134v1

Abstract

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, the results of the first year for the on-going collaboration between ESA and NASA on Web World Wind development are presented, highlighting concrete examples built with the newly introduced features and putting them in relation to possible research and education use cases. Finally, the next steps and roadmap are briefly introduced.

Author Comment

This is an article intended for the OGRS2016 Collection in the general session track.