Visualization of Wind Data on Google Earth for the Three-dimensional Wind Field (3DWF) Model

Abstract

This report documents the algorithms of visualization of vertical and horizontal cross-sections of wind field, and the construction of wind direction's 3D flag for wind direction profile display. In addition, this report describes user-friendly Google Earth graphical user interface (GUI) menus designed to offer the user flexibility, and simple options in order to generate 3D displays in Google Earth and to save them in a Keyhole Markup Language (KML) file.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA570398

Entities

People

  • Chatt Williamson
  • Giap Huynh
  • Yansen Wang

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Cyber
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Grids
  • Ground Level
  • Html
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Information Systems
  • Language
  • Markup Languages
  • Sea Level
  • Terrain Following
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional
  • User Interface
  • Visualizations
  • Web Browsers
  • Wind Direction

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers