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World Wind Europa Challenge

Spatial Data Solutions for Europe

Patrick Hogan, NASA

Gábor Remetey, Hungarian Association for Geo-Information

Maria Antonia Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano

"The Role of Geomatics in Hydrogeological Risk" Padova 27 & 28 February 2013


• The Europa Challenge is an open opportunity for small teams of

university students to address needs of the European community.

• These project teams will consist of 3 to 5 university students.

• Each project team will decide on, design and build a spatial data

application that serves the European community and addresses

the INSPIRE Directive, http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

2"The Role of Geomatics in Hydrogeological Risk" Padova 27 & 28 February 2013

What Is World Wind?

• World Wind, the 2009 NASA Software of the Year, is NASA’s

open source virtual globe technology for spatial data.

• World Wind is based on open standards, i.e., OGC WMS, and

can be configured to accommodate any desired data format.

• World Wind is freely utilized by the world’s space agencies,

local and national governments agencies, commercial industry,

including Fortune 100 companies, and others.

3"The Role of Geomatics in Hydrogeological Risk" Padova 27 & 28 February 2013

Why World Wind Europa Challenge?

• World Wind 3D visualization technology gives any application a

virtual globe world for building any functionality needed to

express, manipulate or analyze spatial data.

• World Wind, as open source technology, enhances competition

and spurs innovation, to accelerate development of solutions.

• World Wind increases social and economic benefit for the

world, similar to other ‘open’ data exchange standards, i.e.,

TCP/IP, WMS, GPS, etc.


Brovelli M.A. and Zamboni G., Flooding

simulation


Spatial Data Solutions for Europe

http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it


Education

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