Central American Monitoring System

[Robby]

Developed by NASA scientists, the innovative regional monitoring system is called SERVIR, a Spanish term meaning to serve.

[Full article @ NASA Breaking News]

 

[Tom]

 

[Tom]

http://servir.nsstc.nasa.gov/home.html

NOW THIS IS COOL!

 

[Tom]

Check out the gallery page!

http://servir.nsstc.nasa.gov/gallery.html

 

[Tom]

Now you can interactively fly over Central America on-line. For the first time a complete, 15 meter resolution, 3-D mosaic of Central America - created from Landsat and IKONOS imagery and elevation data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission - is available, and you can fly over it. You control the altitude, direction of flight and the location. You may also fly to preset locations such as the ruins of the ancient Maya city of Tikal or the coral reefs of Belize. Just follow the steps below.

http://servir.nsstc.nasa.gov/visualizations/index.html

 

[Tom]

I downloaded it!

 

[Tom]

I am seriously impressed!