Capitol Zoom - SIGGRAPH 2001 Final Submission

  • Released Tuesday, May 8, 2001
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Capital Zoom is a seamless, cloudless zoom-in from a global view down to the nation's Capitol building that is composed entirely of satellite data. This data includes IKONOS 1 meter data, Landsat-7 15/30 meter data, Terra/MODIS 250 meter data, and Terra/MODIS 8 kilometer data. The visualization first zooms
in seamlessly, then zooms out/in showing where the different data set layers reside.
This visualization has been accepted to SIGGRAPH 2001. It includes narration. This visualization was created using Maya for motion control, Renderman for
rendering, IDL for pre-processing of the data, Imagine for image registration, and Photoshop for color matching.

A narrated zoom from space to the Capitol Building in Washington DC, followed by a zoom back out to space showing the area covered by each of the four data sets used in the animation. This animation was chosen for the Animation Theater at SIGGRAPH 2001.

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Full globe view

Full globe view

Eastern North America view

Eastern North America view

Mid-Atlantic view

Mid-Atlantic view

Washington DC metro area view

Washington DC metro area view

Capitol and surrounding area view

Capitol and surrounding area view

U.S. Capitol

U.S. Capitol

Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio

This page was originally published on Tuesday, May 8, 2001.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:58 PM EDT.

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