Re:The predecessor to Google Earth was clumsy, yet powerful
by myself248 on Friday September 24, 2021 @06:28PM
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Here I thought it would be about NASA WorldWind, a 2003-era project which was sort of like Keyhole but with all sorts of layers for the GOES and Landsat and MODIS imagery.
Some of those layers were updated every 12 or 24 hours, so you could get near-realtime views of stuff like forest fires and crop growth, which are easily visible using specific spectral bands which are imaged by the satellites.
And clouds, of course, updated every few minutes.
Then the project changed directions and it's more of an SDK meant to be baked into other software; the old interface with all its wonder and depth seems to be gone.
Some of those layers were updated every 12 or 24 hours, so you could get near-realtime views of stuff like forest fires and crop growth, which are easily visible using specific spectral bands which are imaged by the satellites.
And clouds, of course, updated every few minutes.
Then the project changed directions and it's more of an SDK meant to be baked into other software; the old interface with all its wonder and depth seems to be gone.
Here's what it was like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rfxy7mn7mw