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:e2139v4 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2139v4
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
The short paper is reformatted using the template provided for the OGRS conference.
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.