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Welcome to Earth3D
Earth3D exists as a Java and a C++ application. Both can be used at least on Linux, Windows and MacOS X.
The speed of both applications is similar, the Java version seems not to be slower. So both versions are
quite similar.
There are users that just want to use the application to view the earth. I recommend using the
Webstart version
as it does not need any installation, but also it does not have all features yet. These users should
certainly also check out Google Earth as it has better and more
detailed maps than a free program like this one can have.
But there were also several request from people who would like to integrate a 3D earth into their own
program. For these people, I created a new subproject called Earth3d Lib
that provides a QT Widget that displays the earth and allows to easily include own content. See the
documentation page for details.
For a quick start you can start the Java version here:
Introduction
Earth3D is a program that visualizes the earth
in a realtime 3D view. It uses data fromNASA,USGS, the
CIA
and the city ofOsnabrück. I would like to thank
these organisations to allow me to use their data! The program is
available as binary for Linux, MacOS X and Windows under the GPL license.
The program's features are
viewing the earth as a whole
zooming in until countries,
cities and even single houses become visible (if I had such maps, so this
is currently limited to the city of Osnabrück, Germany)
embedding external data like current
earthquake positions or cloud data
My name isDominique Andre Gunia.
This package is a result from my work and my diploma thesis in
computer science at the Institute of ComputerGraphics atBraunschweig
University of Technology.
The support of this work by the
German Research Foundation (DFG) under grant FE 431/4-5 and by the German
Federal Ministry of Research and Technology (BMBF) under grant 01 IRA 02G
is gratefully acknowledged.
The program is hostet atSourceforge. The main
data server for the earth data is at theInstitute of ComputerGraphics.
Other donators I would like to thank can be found on theDonations page!
To give a review of the program I will provide some images and videos
here:
Videos
These videos can give you a short overview about the features and functions of Earth3D. They are encoded
using DivX. If you cannot view them, please download a player on
www.divx.com.
Click on the image to watch a short movie that shows the program in action.
It is a flight around the earth, showing the basic features of earth3d. You can also download
it as AVI (4,7 MB, DivX) to get a higher quality:
Location 1
Location 2
Click on this image to watch a movie that shows a zoom from a view of europe
down to the city of Osnabrück. You can also download
it as AVI (3.5 MB, DivX) to get a higher quality:
Location 1
Location 2
Gallery
Landsat 7 images (100m/pixel)
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