Geoscience Australia's World Wind Viewer is an application developed using NASA's World Wind Java Software Development Kit (SDK) to display Australia's continental data sets. The viewer allows you to compare national data sets such as the radioelements, the gravity and magnetic anomalies, and other mapping layers, and show the data draped over the Australian terrain in three dimensions.
The viewer currently displays the following Geoscience Australia data layers:
The World Wind Viewer application requires the Java Runtime Environment which many computers will already have installed. Clicking on the Launch the Viewer link below will start the download of the application and the relevant software components from Geoscience Australia, NASA and Sun Microsystems websites. You may see a number of notices asking you to confirm these downloads and you will need to click the run/accept buttons to proceed. These notices should only be displayed the first time you launch the application.
When the software component downloads have been completed you will see the NASA World Wind splash screen prior to the application starting.
Instructions for moving around the model using the mouse and keyboard can also be found under the Help > Controls menu in the application.
| Action | Instructions |
|---|---|
| Pan | Left mouse button click and drag - all directions or use left/right/up/down arrows on the keyboard |
| Zoom | Use the scroll wheel on the mouse |
| Tilt | Right mouse button click and drag - up and down Use 'Page Up' and 'Page Down' or shift + up/down arrows on the keyboard |
| Rotate | Right mouse button click and drag - left and right |
| Reset heading | type 'n' on keyboard |
| Reset all | type 'r' on keyboard |
The World Wind Viewer requires up-to-date video card drivers and the Java Runtime Environment.
| Data Sources | Licences |
|---|---|
| Radioelement and geophysical imagery from Geoscience Australia | |
| Blue Marble imagery from NASA | |
| i-cubed Landsat imagery from OpenAerialMap | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0/public domain |
| OpenStreetMap imagery | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0/public domain |
| Metacarta layers | public domain |
| GeoNames | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License |
| NASA World Wind and World Wind Java SDK |
About the Radiometric Map of Australia (includes a movie, links to download the datasets and related products)