World Wind Data Sources

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• Copyright guidelines

Copyright Questions When Using Images From World Wind

• Blue Marble (1-km/pixel resolution)

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Earth Observatory

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/

• i-cubed Landsat 7 (15-meter/pixel resolution)

Global Land Cover Facility

University of Maryland, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies

i-cubed

• NLT Landsat 7 Global Mosaic (30-meter/pixel resolution)

Global Land Cover Facility

University of Maryland, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies

NASA Learning Technologies

• OnEarth Landsat 7 WMS Global Mosaic (15-meter/pixel resolution)

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov/

• Elevation data (SRTM30Plus/SRTMv2/USGS NED derived dataset)

Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/

National Elevation Dataset

U.S. Geological Survey

http://ned.usgs.gov/

SRTM30_PLUS: SRTM30, coastal & ridge multibeam, estimated topography

Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography – University of California San Diego

http://topex.ucsd.edu/WWW_html/srtm30_plus.html

• MODIS Rapid Response System (variable 250m/pixel resolution)

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Science Mission Directorate, Applied Sciences Program

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/

• USGS Topographic, B&W Ortho, and Color Urban Area

United States Geological Survey

Microsoft Research

TerraServer-USA

http://www.terraserver-usa.com/

• United States Placenames

USGS Geographic Names Information System

U.S. Board on Geographic Names

http://geonames.usgs.gov/

• World Placenames

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

GEOnet Names Server

http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html

• United States Borders

National Atlas of the United States of America

http://www.nationalatlas.gov/

• Canadian Borders

GeoGratis service of Natural Resources Canada

http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/clf/en?action=atlasvectors

• World Borders

CIA World DataBank II

Dave Pape

http://www.evl.uic.edu/pape/data/WDB/ (note: out of date)

• NASA Scientific Visualization Studio Image Server
  

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Learning Technologies

http://aes.gsfc.nasa.gov

http://learn.arc.nasa.gov/svs/

• GLOBE Program Visualization Server

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Colorado State University

NASA

National Science Foundation

U.S. Department of State

http://viz.globe.gov

• Pilbara DEM

Geological Survey of Western Australia

Geoscience Australia

http://www.doir.wa.gov.au/GSWA/

http://www.ga.gov.au/