NASA WorldWind: virtual globe for an open smart city
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Spatial and Geographic Information Systems, World Wide Web and Web Science
- Keywords
- NASA WorldWind, Web, Free and Open Source Software, VIrtual Globes, Smart City, Sustainability, Data Collection
- Copyright
- © 2016 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
- 2016. NASA WorldWind: virtual globe for an open smart city. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2139v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2139v1
Abstract
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.
Author Comment
This is an article intended for the OGRS2016 Collection - the session "CitySmart, Open Source Apps for Urban Management".
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.