Remote Sensing Tools

The release of Global Mapper 9.01 includes an option to export any loaded data to Google Maps tiles. The process is very simple — just load your vector or imagery data (or all the layers you want to include), click through Tools → Configuration → Projection and choose the Mercator projection and the Google Maps […]

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YouTube videos, showcasing CryEngine 2’s intuative real-time editing toolset — as demonstrated at GDC 2007. (Take note of those Voxel and Road tools, among others.)

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Just messing around with overlay comparisons in Google Earth due to performance issues. I also ended-up comparing the noticable difference between custom processed imagery and imagery provided to Google, since I’m in there.

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Stefan, over at Ogle Earth demonstrates a brilliant media demonstration, of creating your own weather station-like application using Wirecast. There’s a variety of uses for such a demonstration, actually — beyond this example.
Stefan’s demonstration, via YouTube

Taking it one step further
To add something to the mix, I’ll raise the bar a little bit by proposing a better […]

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I’m just noticing an added option for viewing the Poly9 FreeEarth 3D version of Flickrvision, developed by Dave Troy. Flickrvision is a Google Maps mash-up that displays the feeds published directly from Flickr, in a geographic context and in near real-time via the Google Maps API. Flickrvision’s sister mash-up development, Twittervision, also has a Poly9 […]

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After Frank and Ogle Earth announced the default Darfur layer that Google Earth rolled-out, I wanted to take some time to see how that information spread. It was an experiment that led to certain pleasant surprises, as well as certain sadness in the wake of current coverage of events that consumed the media.

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I’ve explored a number of options in how virtual viewers, such as Google Earth or NASA World Wind, can be enhanced to demonstrate practical or up-to-date visualizations within the model. The visualization space that these applications provide is useful in its own way, but what about that added context of placing a person in a […]

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