I have several WorldWind related posts for this holiday season.

First off, I have one of Patrick Hogan’s presentations from this years AGU meeting. You can see the presentation here.  This presentation shows off quite a large number of different uses of WWJava.

Next we have GeoWind.  GeoWind is an open source GIS platform that integrates OGC as implemented GeoTools within NASA’s WorldWind.

The vision of this effort is the creation of an open geospatial system that enables the scientific modeling process to be closer to a ‘real world’ experience.

Some of the planned and anticipated use cases are querying and mapping available data for modeling problems using OGC web services, stepwise delineation of model parameter, embedded execution of an environmental model and its direct mapping of state variables into a world view, or simply the mapping of spatial/temporal model results in a realistic way that was never possible in the past. GeoWind leverages the following technologies:

1. A Geotools/Worldwind integration library and
2. an API that allows the adaptation of simulation models or modeling frameworks such as OMS.

And lastly, we have Capcode, a software suite for sailors that makes use of WWJava.

Capcode is a free software able to retrieve data from the NMEA compatible equipments of your boat to be displayed on the PC screen after some computations. The main purpose is to provide a tool for regattas.