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December 15, 2006
Interesting Satellite Visualizations for Google Earth
[UPDATE: This visualization was taken down by the author, so is no longer available]
One of the Google Earth Community (GEC) members called 'pseabury' (Paul Seabury) has published a number of KMZ files containing visualizations for a number of satellite types (Iridium, amateur radio, Globalstar, disaster monitoring, military, geodetic, geostationary, and more). Each collection shows the satellites, their footprints and cones, their subsatellite points, and their orbital data in the info balloon. They look really cool in Google Earth (as seen in the screenshot). Check out the one for the Iridium satellites 
for example. Or, try the GPS satellites which are in orbits 12,600 miles above the Earth. You can find all the different KMZ files for different types of satellites as separate posts in this thread. The first post contains a zip file with a program for running the satellite updater he wrote (read more details in another post in the thread). Paul also did the Tropical Data network link useful during hurricane season which I first wrote about over a year ago.
Posted by FrankTaylor at December 15, 2006 12:14 AM
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Posted by: jpwade at December 15, 2006 02:45 AM
There is another good satellite visualisation here:
I think I somewhat prefer this - it's all in one network link rather than several, and while a bit less accurate with altitude, is a bit easier to navigate.
Posted by: Mike Hearn at December 16, 2006 10:04 PM
hi i would like to know is it posssiableto get free live feed from any web sit or program on satillite views open to the public
Posted by: mrk at September 3, 2007 02:43 AM
yeah, how do i get the data to overlay. what format does it have to be, and how do i integrate it in a map?
Posted by: jack at November 1, 2007 10:50 AM
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The dynamic data layer models by Paul Seabury are "outragous"!!!!
This model concept within GE would really serve great from NASA, in place of their java driven tracking system located at http://science.nasa.gov/Realtime/jtrack/3d/jtrack3d.html
Thank you so much for pointing this post out
jpwade