Some of you might recognise this image, it's one of NASA's "black marble" image, showing the lights on earth glowing into space. Apparently, the images were so popular NASA decided to add some interactivity.
NASA has just released an interesting app that allows us to see the nighttime lights and geographical boundaries of Earth, Worldview, the app is full of NASA's own data from night lights, clouds, dust, volcanoes, cyclones or floods.
You can shift the timeline to see lights and flooding on the eastern seaboard during hurricane sandy.
In short, it contains massive amounts of data and really fresh data about our planet. From the Worldview app info page:
"This new tool from NASA's EOSDIS provides the capability to interactively browse full-resolution, global, near real-time satellite imagery from 50+ data products from LANCE. In essence, this shows the entire Earth as it looks "right now" — or at least as it has looked within the past few hours. This supports time-critical application areas such as wildfire management, air quality measurements, and weather forecasting. The data is generally available within three hours of observation and can be compared to observations since May 2012…
Worldview uses the newly-developed Global Image Browse Services (GIBS) to rapidly retrieve its full-resolution imagery to provide an interactive browsing experience. While Worldview uses OpenLayers as its mapping library, GIBS also supports 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."
The app is available for download now for iPad.
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