Capitol Zoom

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Capitol Zoom - SIGGRAPH 2001 Final Submission

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.

Capitol and surrounding area view

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS

  • Animation ID

    2133

  • Video ID

    SVS2001-0016

  • Start Timecode

    01:00:35:00

  • End Timecode

    01:08:00:00

  • Animator

    Greg Shirah, Horace Mitchell, Marte Newcombe, Michael Mangos, James W. Williams, Alex Kekesi, Stuart A. Snodgrass, Mike Velle

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Writer

    Jarrett Cohen

  • Narrator

    Marte Newcombe

  • Visualization Date

    2001/05/08

  • Scientist

    Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC)

  • Citation

    SIGGRAPH 2001 Animation Festival

  • Keywords

    SIGGRAPH, Zoom

  • DLESE Subject

    Human geography, Physical geography

  • Data Date

    Terra/MODIS: 2000/03/06, Landsat: 1999/05/11, IKONOS: 2000/04/01

  • Animation Type

    Regular

  • Airchecks

    Shown at the SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival August 12-17 2001 in Los Angeles California.