Putting 3-D Earth into Your Applications and Web Pages
TS-5523

NASA World Wind provides 3-D virtual globe technology that you can put in your applications. It's a visual component based on the JavaBeans component architecture, with an extensible API and a friendly user interface that you can easily enhance or even replace. It can be used as-is or highly customized. You can put one or more in your programs or your web pages. In a web page, you can control it with the JavaScript programming language. It's as good as it sounds; it's what the world has been waiting for.

You'll learn in this session how to use, customize, and extend NASA World Wind for the Java platform. It shows you how to create several programs and illustrates how to employ 3-D virtual globe technology in your standalone and Web 2.0 products. You'll find out where to start and where to get this amazing open-source component.

If you've wished you could include the abilities of Google Earth, Microsoft Virtual Earth, or NASA World Wind for .NET in your own programs or if you've thought, "That would be really cool on our web page," this session is for you. To get the most from it, you'll want to have some experience developing interactive Java technology-based applications or JavaScript technology-driven web pages.

Speaker Tom Gaskins leads the NASA engineering team developing NASA World Wind. He has worked for the majority of his 20-year career in 3-D graphics and large-model visualization and started his graphics career at Sun. He has developed several 3-D graphics APIs and applications, has written two books for O'Reilly & Associates, and directed software technology programs for Hewlett-Packard and NASA. He can be reached at tom@tomgaskins.com.

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