Earth ID: 2133

Capitol Zoom - SIGGRAPH 2001 Final Submission

Visualizations by Greg Shirah Released on May 8, 2001

Capital Zoom is a seamless, cloudless zoom-in from a global view down to the nation's Capitol building that is composed entirely of satellite data. This data includes IKONOS 1 meter data, Landsat-7 15/30 meter data, Terra/MODIS 250 meter data, and Terra/MODIS 8 kilometer data. The visualization first zooms
in seamlessly, then zooms out/in showing where the different data set layers reside.
This visualization has been accepted to SIGGRAPH 2001. It includes narration. This visualization was created using Maya for motion control, Renderman for
rendering, IDL for pre-processing of the data, Imagine for image registration, and Photoshop for color matching.

A narrated zoom from space to the Capitol Building in Washington DC, followed by a zoom back out to space showing the area covered by each of the four data sets used in the animation. This animation was chosen for the Animation Theater at SIGGRAPH 2001.

Complete transcript available.

This video is also available on our YouTube channel.

Visualization Credits

Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC): Animator
Marte Newcombe (GST): Animator
Michael Mangos (GST): Animator
James W. Williams (GST): Animator
Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Animator
Stuart A. Snodgrass (GST): Animator
Mike Velle (HTSI): Animator
Marte Newcombe (GST): Narrator
Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
Jarrett Cohen (GST): Writer

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Science Paper:
SIGGRAPH 2001 Animation Festival

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Missions:
Landsat
Terra

Data Used:

IKONOS

2000/04/01

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Landsat-7/ETM+

1999/05/11

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Terra/MODIS

2000/03/06

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Note: While we identify the data sets used in these visualizations, we do not store any further details nor the data sets themselves on our site.

This item is part of these series:
Great Zooms
Narrated Movies

Keywords:
DLESE >> Human geography
DLESE >> Physical geography
SVS >> SIGGRAPH
SVS >> Zoom
DLESE >> Narrated
SVS >> Voice Over Talent
NASA Science >> Earth

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Shown at the SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival August 12-17 2001 in Los Angeles California.