File:Our Earth (7948889734).jpg

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Rendering of the Earth. This was done using new experimental C++ code that is being put together as a possible successor to jDem846. It has improved algorithms and now integrates OpenGL for hardware acceleration.

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English: Rendering of the Earth. This was done using new experimental C++ code that is being put together as a possible successor to jDem846. It has improved algorithms and now integrates OpenGL for hardware acceleration. This new code is considerably faster and much more memory efficient than the Java-based project. Elevations are exaggerated by about 50 times to better visualize terrain features, and cloud and atmospheric elevations are rather arbitrary.

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- Elevation Data is derived from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission 30-arcsecond data (SRTM30), the Radarsat Antarctic Mapping Project Digital Elevation Model Version 2 (RAMP2), and the GEBCO_08 bathymetric raster from General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans.

- Satellite imagery provided by the NASA's Earth Observatory Blue Marble project. 

- Global clouds are from the NASA Visible Earth catalog.
The full resolution image is available for download (88MB).
Date Taken on 7 September 2012, 07:23:40
Source Our Earth
Author Kevin M. Gill
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bluemarble; jdem846; computergraphics; planet; earth; digitalelevationmodel; dem; demkit; space

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Kevin M. Gill at https://flickr.com/photos/53460575@N03/7948889734. It was reviewed on 18 February 2024 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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