Satellite Tracker
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- | This plug-in relies on the system clock so for accurate results it should be synched with a timeserver, alo due to a floating point precision problem the satellite positions are not accurate in versions of World Wind less than 1.3.4. | + | This plug-in relies on the system clock so for accurate results it should be synched with a timeserver, alo due to a floating point precision problem the satellite positions are not accurate in versions of World Wind less than 1.3.4. There also seems to be a problem for some international users due to a ./, issue, to fix this change your windows settings to US-English. |
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Satellite Tracker plug-in | |
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Satellites
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Developer | Mashiharu and Robert Neuman |
Latest release | 1.2 / Jan, 2006 |
License | Public domain |
Web site | Plug-in Website |
This plug-in adds dynamicaly rendered Satellites to World Wind, 400 satellites are displayed and a satellite info window appears on mouse-over.
Contents |
Installation
Download Satellite Tracker and extract the file to your World Wind Plugins directory.
Usage
To use the plug-in load World Wind, open the Plug-Ins menu and click Load/Unload... (see figure 1).
Click on 'Satellite Tracker' in the Plugin Load/Unload window and then press the Load button, the indicator next to 'Satellite Tracker' should turn green, you can now safely close the Plugin Load/Unload window.
To display satellites click on Satellite Tracker to show a list of satellites, tick a name and wait a few seconds for the satellite models to load.
External Links
See also
Notes
This plug-in relies on the system clock so for accurate results it should be synched with a timeserver, alo due to a floating point precision problem the satellite positions are not accurate in versions of World Wind less than 1.3.4. There also seems to be a problem for some international users due to a ./, issue, to fix this change your windows settings to US-English.