NASA Ames Research Center OpenSource [World Wind 1.2]

NASA Ames Research Center OpenSource

Some cool sounding OSS from NASA...

Livingstone2/Skunkworks
"Livingstone2 is a reusable artificial intelligence (AI) software system designed to assist spacecraft, life support systems, chemical plants or other complex systems in operating robustly with minimal human supervision, even in the face of hardware failures or unexpected events. "

World Wind
"NASA World Wind is a graphically rich 3D virtual globe for use on desktop computers running Windows 2K or XP. It combines NASA imagery generated from satellites that have produced the Blue Marble, LandSat 7, SRTM, MODIS and more. Particular effort was put into the ease of usability allowing the user to interact by panning, rotating, and zooming in and out. Visual guides such as political borders, city labels, latitude & longitude lines are included. All this imagery and data is delivered on demand by automatically streaming data from WMS based servers."


Right now World Wind 1.2 is being "slashdoted", so I will have to try back in a couple days... Here's the comment from the download page, "We are sorry but the slashdoting of a 250MB file was a bit more than we had planned for. We will re-post this file later in the day or this evening once the initial rush cools off. Thank you for your patience."


Here are some other software related links.

"Non-Open-Source NASA Software

Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Research/Software/software.html
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/ILab/
http://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov/SLAB/

Glenn Research Center
https://technology.grc.nasa.gov/software/

Goddard Space Flight Center
http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_home.html
http://hdfeos.gsfc.nasa.gov/hdfeos/softwarelist.cfm
http://hires.gsfc.nasa.gov/stis/software/library.html

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
http://www.openchannelfoundation.org/inst/group_list.php?institution_id=25

Marshall Space Flight Center
http://techtran.msfc.nasa.gov/catalog.html

COSMIC Software Collection
http://www.openchannelfoundation.org/cosmic/"

(via Slashdot - NASA Releases World Viewer)

Update #1 9/24/2004 @ 8:02 PM PDT:
NASA put up some mirrors and I was finally able to download it.

Guess what? The source is included in the install and it's C Sharp. That's pretty cool... Now THERE'S my "business case" for downloading and playing with this... :)

So if I wonder about being a coder at NASA... hum... interesting...

BTW, the app's pretty cool... Still trying to figure out how to really use it, but it sure looks cool.