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February 18th, 2010

Hooked on the Fly now airing

I’m a bit late with this news but Hooked on the Fly is now airing on The Sportsmans Channel, the satellite imagery used in this show was all created using NASA World Wind and uses only non-commercial satellite and orthoimagery.
The air times are -
Sunday 6:30 PM
Tuesday 10:30 PM
Wednesday 11:30 AM
Thursday 2:00 AM
Friday 6:30 AM
If anyone is interested in [...]

November 4th, 2009

NASA World Wind wins NASA Software of the Year award

At long last NASA has given credit to World Wind, Patrick Hogan, Project Manager for World Wind at NASA Ames, has just let me know that NASA has awarded this years Software of the Year award to NASA World Wind.
Details are posted on the community run  forum at WorldWind Central, Patrick goes on to thank [...]

July 28th, 2009

Some new World Wind Java videos

Thanks to SchoeningJohannes for giving me links to these cool NASA World Wind Java videos, I have added them to the World Wind YouTube group, so have a look and enjoy.

The Risk game is pretty neat, but my favourite is the use of multi touch combined with a Wii fit board for navigation combined with [...]

June 18th, 2009

Race across America World Wind Java applet

The Gaea+ team have created a World Wind Java applet which displays the route of the Race across America, as well as the route the applet shows location details on mouse over and competitor locations.
A pretty slick implementation and the first time I have seen a World Wind Java applet that does this, World Wind [...]

May 4th, 2009

USG World Wind Conference

Chad has written a nice article on the recent World Wind Conference aimed at Government agencies, the main focus seems to have been World Wind Java, but as shown by the John Hopkins University .NET is still used, for more information please visit The Earth is Square, and if anyone is interested in funding World [...]

April 20th, 2009

Press Release – Orkash announces World Wind-based Web 3.0 solution

An interesting sounding project based on NASA World Wind Java, although the site is very sparse on details it does make it sound like it’s the start of  SkyNet.
From GIS Development -
New Delhi, India: Orkash has showcased its Web 3.0 solution for automated intelligence creation.
Designed on the enhanced version of NASA’s Earth browser, World Wind [...]