Earth  ID: 2673

Great Zoom out from Boston, MA: Park Plaza Hotel

Visualizations by Greg Shirah Released on January 14, 2003
Using data from different spacecraft and some powerful computer technology, visualizers at the Goddard Space Flight Center present you with a collection of American cities in a way you have never seen them before. Starting with our camera high above the Earth, we rush in towards the surface at what would be an impossible speed for any known vehicle. Passing though layers of atmosphere, the colors of our destinations shimmer with their own unique characteristics, and suddenly we find ourselves floating in virtual space just above the ground.
This zoom was created to support a paper given at IEEE Vis 2002.
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A seamless zoom from the ground to space, using data from Terra-MODIS, Landsat-ETM+, and IKONOS, and starting at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Video slate image reads "Great Zoom out from Park Plaza Hotel

(IEEE Visualization 2002 Conference)

Boston, MA".

Visualization Credits

Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC): Animator
Marte Newcombe (GST): Animator
Michael Mangos (GST): Animator
Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
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Missions:
Landsat
Terra

Data Used:
IKONOS
2000/01/14
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Landsat-7/ETM+
2001/01/01
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Terra/MODIS
2000/10/20
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This item is part of this series:
Great Zooms

Keywords:
DLESE >> Human geography
DLESE >> Physical geography
SVS >> Zoom
NASA Science >> Earth