EarthBrowser

EarthBrowser was a virtual globe software developed by Lunar software. It was available online as a Flash application or could be installed locally as an AIR application. It focused mainly on visualising geophysical information such as weather, earthquakes, clouds, weather conditions, etc. It showed the earth as satellite images.^[1]

EarthBrowser

Developer(s)	Lunar Software
Stable release	3.1.2 / 2009
Operating system	Microsoft Windows, Macintosh
Type	Virtual globe
License	Proprietary

EarthBrowser was originally developed in 1996 by Matt Giger, a University of Oregon graduate student, under the name Planet Earth.^[2] It was one of the first applications to show real-time patterns (including weather, earthquakes, and volcanic activity) on a virtual globe.^[3] It was largely superseded by the introduction of Keyhole Markup Language, used by most current virtual globe software.^[4]

References

1. "EarthBrowser". Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College. Archived from the original on 2012-01-06. Retrieved 2020-04-13.
2. Tuttle, Benjamin T.; Anderson, Sharolyn; Huff, Russell (2008). "Virtual Globes: An Overview of Their History, Uses, and Future Challenges". Geography Compass. 2 (5): 1478–1505. doi:10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00131.x. ISSN 1749-8198 – via Wiley Online Library.
3. Riedl, Andreas. "Digital Globes-from Virtual to Real." Proceedings of 22nd ICA Cartographic Conference. 2005.
4. De Paor, Declan G.; Whitmeyer, Steven J. (2011-01-01). "Geological and geophysical modeling on virtual globes using KML, COLLADA, and Javascript". Computers & Geosciences. Virtual Globes in Science. 37 (1): 100–110. doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2010.05.003. ISSN 0098-3004 – via Science Direct.