NASA World Wind: virtual globe for an open smart city
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Spatial and Geographic Information Systems, World Wide Web and Web Science
- Keywords
- Web, Free and Open Source Software, VIrtual Globes, Smart City, Sustainability, Data Collection, NASA World Wind
- Copyright
- © 2017 Brovelli et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2017. NASA World Wind: virtual globe for an open smart city. PeerJ Preprints 5:e2139v5 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2139v5
Abstract
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.
Author Comment
The article is slightly reorganized and some typing mistakes are corrected.
Supplemental Information
ISPRS 2016 paper "Visualization of VGI data through the new NASA Web WorldWind virtual globe"
The supplementary file is added as two figures are used in the paper being submitted as well.