Tech Roundtable:KMLWMSSOS

PanosOctopus

(for Uniview 1.3)

Ned GardinerLindsay IrvingGreg Mancari

Ka Chun YuWorldviews Network Institute – Thursday, March 17, 2011

KML Objects

• Keyhole Markup Language and Google Earth

• Uniview Compatibility Issues with KML

• Not entirely compatible – KML object tree,

labels, animations and time series

• Test! Test! Test!

KML Web Resources

http://earth.images.alaska.edu/KMLarchive/

KML Web Resources

http://www.kmlfactbook.org

Google Earth Tricks:Extracting a KML Layer for Uniview

Google Earth Tricks:Image Overlays

Google Earth Tricks:Image Overlays

Drag:

• Center to move

• Corners to resize

KML ObjectsGIS Conversion

• Ask Lindsey!

Web Map Service (WMS)

Landsat 7 – 15m resolution

NASA OnEarth (defunct)

Web Map Service (WMS)

Landsat 7 – 15m resolution

Hamburg / NASA Worldwind

Web Map Service (WMS)

USDA NAIP – 1m resolution

From USGS Seamless Server

Web Map Service (WMS)

Land Cover

From USGS Seamless Server

WMS Listinghttps://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AeQ6HYkUpYvMZGRoNHFjeDJfNjNnd3R6Ymtraw&hl=en

Science On a Sphere Datasets

• Network Archive – http://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/

Science On a Sphere Datasets

• Conversion to

• KML

• Uniview Object

by Greg, Ka Chun,

Lindsay, Ned

What to do after picking a dataset ...

• Select frames in time sequence

• Worldviews Network team (Ned, Lindsay) can optimize visuals from

original data

Spherical Panorama Photography

• How to’s – wiki.panotools.org

• Conversion by Ka Chun:

• panocto perl script

• Input Format: single image in

equirectangular projection

Other Media?

In Uniview’s future?

• Billboards

• PowerPoint files

• Videos

• Fulldome movies

• Complex 3D models

Octopus Tutorial

Server

Client (CONTROL)

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Client

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Octopus Tutorial

Server

Client

Client

Client (CONTROL)

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Connecting to an Octopus Server

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Connecting to an Octopus Server

DMNS Server:

216.85.144.47 port – 22105

SCISS Server:

octopus.sciss.se – port 26021