Visit Worldview at https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov
This tool from NASA's EOSDIS provides the capability to interactively browse global, full-resolution satellite imagery and then download the underlying data. Most of the 200+ available products are updated within three hours of observation, essentially showing the entire Earth as it looks "right now". This supports time-critical application areas such as wildfire management, air quality measurements, and flood monitoring. Arctic and Antarctic views of several products are also available for a "full globe" perspective. Browsing on tablet and smartphone devices is generally supported for mobile access to the imagery.
Worldview uses the Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS) to rapidly retrieve its imagery for an interactive browsing experience. While Worldview uses OpenLayers as its mapping library, GIBS imagery can also be accessed from Google Earth, NASA World Wind, and several other clients. We encourage interested developers to build their own clients or integrate NASA imagery into their existing ones using these services.
This code was originally developed at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center for the Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) project.
Copyright © 2013 - 2016 United States Government as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. All Rights Reserved.
Licensed under the NASA Open Source Agreement, Version 1.3.
We'd be quite excited if you'd like to contribute to Worldview! Whether it's finding bugs, adding new features, fixing anything broken, or improving documentation, get started by submitting an issue or pull request!
Please see our Roadmap for a list of features currently in progress or planned in the reasonably near future. We're also working to synchronize our (currently internal) sprint planning and issue tracking systems with GitHub.
To get your instance of Worldview running, follow the Installation guide below or the Manual Setup instructions.
Thanks for considering contributing and making our planet easier to explore!
These instructions install a development version of Worldview using a virtual machine. If you prefer to install locally on your computer, follow the directions in Manual Setup
Notes: This has only been tested on Mac OS X and Windows 8.1. Let us know if this works in other environments.
Install the following:
Clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/nasa-gibs/worldview.git
cd worldviewSelect one of the following configuration repositories:
# Official EOSDIS configurations
git clone https://github.com/nasa-gibs/worldview-options-eosdis.git options
# Or a blank repository with only Corrected Reflectance and no branding
git clone https://github.com/nasa-gibs/worldview-options-template.git optionsBuild the virtual machine with:
vagrant up (or 'vagrant up --provision' if you already built it previously)After the command finishes, Worldview should be ready and available at one of the following:
# Official EOSDIS configurations
http://localhost:8182/worldview
# Blank repository
http://localhost:8182/example-mapContact us by sending an email to support@earthdata.nasa.gov