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Tech Roundtable: KML WMS SOS Panos Octopus (for Uniview 1.3). Ned Gardiner Lindsay Irving Greg Mancari Ka Chun Yu. Worldviews Network Institute – Thursday, March 17, 2011. KML Objects. Keyhole Markup Language and Google Earth Uniview Compatibility Issues with KML
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Tech Roundtable: KML WMS SOS Panos Octopus (for Uniview 1.3) Ned Gardiner Lindsay Irving Greg Mancari Ka Chun Yu Worldviews 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 Objects GIS 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 Listing https://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 • UniviewObject • 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: • panoctoperl 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 Client Client (CONTROL) Server Client Client
Octopus Tutorial Client (CONTROL) Client Server Client Client
Connecting to an Octopus Server DMNS Server: 216.85.144.47 port – 22105 SCISS Server: octopus.sciss.se – port 26021