World Wind
World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth

World Wind lets PC users zoom from satellite altitude into any place on the globe Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there

Virtually visit any place in the world Look across the Andes, into the Grand Canyon, over the Alps, or along the African Sahara

World Wind allows any user to zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth, leveraging high resolution LandSat imagery and SRTM elevation data
to experience Earth in visually rich 3D, just as if they were really there

Particular focus was put into the ease of usability so people of all ages can enjoy World Wind All one needs to control World Wind is a two button mouse

Additional guides and features can be accessed though a simplified menu Navigation is automated with single clicks of a mouse as well as the ability to type in any location and automatically zoom into it

World Wind benefits most from a video card with 3D acceleration If you don't know whether your machine comes with one, it is likely to have one built in if the computer was purchased within the past two years

World Wind requires that you have DirectX and the NET runtime environment installed If you don't have them on your computer, World Wind Setup will direct you to web pages where you can download DirectX and NET runtime environment

World Wind comes with data you can zoom into After a certain point, World Wind will begin to download more images automatically The servers hosting this information are very busy and may be unresponsive until we get the necessary infrastructure

Here are some key features of World Wind

3D Engine
Blue Marble
Landsat 7
SRTM
MODIS
GLOBE
Landmark Set


Requirements

NET 20
Intel Pentium 3, 1 GHz, or AMD Athlon or higher
256 MB of RAM
3D Graphics Card
nVidia GeForce 2 Ultra
ATI Radeon 7500
Intel Extreme Graphics 2
DSL / Cable connection or faster
2 GB of disk space


What's New in This Release

Plugin Movie Recorder (added avi xport)
Plugin Place Finder Loader (Supports more geocoders)
Plugin Satellite Tracker
Plugin Virtal Earth, downloads Microsoft local live data (must be loaded from the plugins menu, then activated by clicking the toolbar icon)
Plugin Improved WMS browser with GetCapabilities support
Data New NRL data
Data WFS placenames and boundaries
Core New accurate sunshading
Core Support for 3D models
Core Atmosphere (Improved with atmospheric scattering)
Core Added widget support
Widget New scalebar
Widget Time controller
Widget 3D compass widget
Installer Removed background
Installer Mars, Moon, SDSS icons removed
Installer Net 20 check
Installer Added command line tags NODOTNET, /NODX, /NOMDX) to skip detection of NET, DirectX 90c, and Managed DirectX