Section Content:
- Earth - early renders (
) - Earth - new renders ()
- Earth - Evaluating the Blue Marble NG dataset ()
- Earth - renders using the Blue Marble NG dataset ()
- Earth - Evaluation of SRTM void filling data ()
- Earth - Atmosphere and shading compensation of satellite images ()
- Earth - Elevation data from contour lines ()
- Earth - Demonstration Scene ()
Rendering the earth
A lot of different data from satellites exists for rendering views of the earth. Using the techniques described on the planets rendering page it is possible to generate high quality high resolution images. Over the time both available data and techniques improved and here you can find images from several stages of this process. A large collection of closeup views and panoramas can be found on the Views of the Earth site.
- For the first tests using isosurfaces for rendering the earth i used the Blue Marble
2002 1km resolution data set
- After high resolution height data from the SRTM mission was made available i started rendering
closeup views also using higher resolution color images.
- I wrote a review of the Blue Marble next generation data sets.
- and made some test images with it.
- Another review for SRTM void filling data.
- Some experiments with atmosphere compensation of satellite images.
- About a technique for contour line interpolation.
- A commented sample scene demonstrating the earth rendering techniques.
