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okelley
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Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth!
      12/15/06 06:18 AM

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Is anyone using the KML format to distribute 3D information about the Earth's atmosphere? The atmosphere and the severe weather within it are inherently three dimensional. However, from a quick search, I find only 2D images of atmospheric data in the KML and KMZ formats, not 3D representations. If you can use KML to define a 3D building, why not use it to define a 3D storm cloud?

I have tried creating 3D KMZ files from a satellite overflight of Hurricane Katrina (2005), a squall line over Florida, and several other severe weather events. If anyone else has already put this kind of 3D data into the KMZ format, please let me know. I will try to attach a sample KMZ file to this message, but if this fails, you can download several 3D KMZ files from the following URL: http://www-tsdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/tsdis/gis/google.html . These KMZ files contain 3D precipitation, cloud height, lightning, and surface rain rates observed by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite.

I would appreciate receiving any feedback that you may have on these KMZ files. In particular, is the almost 1 megabyte file size too big? Do the 100,000 lat/lon/altitude vertices in the file cause Google Earth to run too slowly on your computer? Does the web page listed above give a sufficiently detailed description of the KMZ file's contents? The web page describes the somewhat abstract representation in the KMZ file, such as using a yellow vertical line to represent a lightning flash.

Owen

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* Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! ink_polaroidAdministrator 07/03/05 12:53 AM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! marcus_chang   07/11/08 01:57 AM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! ianmaciel   08/30/07 01:55 PM
. * * Draw Distance Relyt22   08/04/07 04:29 PM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! crdarling   06/16/07 05:51 AM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! EstelaC   06/16/07 05:18 PM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! hyperkalum   05/16/07 12:00 PM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! okelley   12/15/06 06:18 AM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! myrddin   08/11/06 06:15 AM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! land_dreamer   02/24/06 11:00 AM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! loupiote   01/15/06 04:14 PM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! crasstopher   01/27/06 09:28 PM
. * * How's about textures? Downloader5002   12/18/05 04:55 AM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! betyps   12/17/05 02:08 PM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! tonylaw   10/26/05 06:03 AM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! TheDarknessMaster83   09/03/05 04:53 AM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! Daggarjon   08/25/05 11:47 AM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! Jason_Birch   08/29/05 06:56 PM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! earthboy   08/29/05 02:55 PM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! blueman   07/12/05 08:20 AM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! ink_polaroidAdministrator   07/12/05 08:47 AM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! smcq   07/12/05 04:03 PM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! blueman   07/12/05 10:24 AM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! smcq   07/12/05 04:10 PM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! JumbleModerator   09/08/05 08:48 PM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! jakedundee7   09/13/05 03:25 PM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! tonsofpcs   07/19/05 10:25 PM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! ink_polaroidAdministrator   07/12/05 11:00 AM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! earthrocks   07/23/05 09:32 AM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! ink_polaroidAdministrator   07/23/05 10:25 AM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! smcq   07/05/05 10:07 AM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! seerAdministrator   07/05/05 01:20 PM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! Periboob   07/04/05 10:54 AM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! ink_polaroidAdministrator   07/04/05 12:56 PM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! TheSHAD0W   07/11/05 07:05 PM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! mickmel   07/12/05 05:53 AM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! MacMedic   07/31/06 07:08 AM
. * * Re: Welcome to the world of 3D Google Earth! seerAdministrator   07/31/06 08:44 AM


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