NASA WorldWind: virtual globe for an open smart city

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1 Department of Civil and Environmental Enginerring, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
2 WorldWind, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California, United States of America
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.2139v3
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.
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Cite this article
Brovelli MA, Kilsedar CE, Hogan PJ, Prestifilippo G, Zamboni G. 2016. NASA WorldWind: virtual globe for an open smart city. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2139v3

Abstract

In this paper, the open source framework NASA WorldWind is presented. NASA WorldWind comes with two versions. The Java version is well established in the market and has many customers. On the other side the new version, which is the Web version, Web WorldWind, is still at the dawn of development cycle, with many features implemented and already used in several applications, with a great future ahead. Moreover, some of the features available in the Web WorldWind are listed and a short comparison with Cesium library is provided. Additionally, an interesting application developed in the smart cities context with Web WorldWind is described.

Author Comment

This is an article intended for the OGRS2016 Collection.

The session track it is related to is " CitySmart, Open Source Apps for Urban Management ".

In the second version of the short paper a comparison between NASA Web WorldWind and Cesium is given. Moreover two applications to collect georeferenced data on the field, ODK Collect and Via Regina are described more in detail.

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.

DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.2139v3/supp-1