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Interesting Satellite Visualizations for Google Earth

December 15, 2006

[UPDATE: This visualization was taken down by the author, so is no longer available]
Satellite visualizations in Google EarthOne 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.

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Frank Taylor started the Google Earth Blog in July, 2005 shortly after Google Earth was first released. He has worked with 3D computer graphics and VR for many years and was very impressed with this exciting product. Frank completed a 5.5 year circumnavigation of the earth by sailboat in June 2015 which you can read about at Tahina Expedition, and is a licensed pilot, backpacker, diver, and photographer.

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  1. jpwade says

    December 15, 2006 at 2:45 am

    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

  2. Mike Hearn says

    December 16, 2006 at 10:04 pm

    There is another good satellite visualisation here:
    http://openaprs.net/
    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.

  3. mrk says

    September 3, 2007 at 2:43 am

    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

  4. jack says

    November 1, 2007 at 10:50 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?

  5. Laurent says

    May 18, 2010 at 5:19 am

    Hello,
    Don’t those files not exist anymore?
    I’m looking an a way to display gestationary satellites in the GEarth Plugin and found this, but as it does not exist anymore ….
    Any hints where to find a similar thing?
    Thanks in advance

  6. Michael Kuehl says

    August 10, 2011 at 9:34 am

    In the last few months Ive noticed some amazing changes in this ap on my phone. I can bid and schedule a job from my phone while out in the field. And some times do the job that same day.

    • samad mirza says

      April 19, 2015 at 8:16 am

      Worthy of praise, but not very much good. ….



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