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Freeware. Website. earth.google.com. Google Earth is a web and computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery. The program maps the Earth by superimposing satellite images, aerial photography, and GIS data onto a 3D globe, allowing users to see cities and landscapes from various angles.
Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen is a Danish [1] computer scientist, technology executive, and the co-founder of Google Maps. [2] He was later the director of engineering for Facebook in London. [3] In early 2003, Lars and his brother Jens co-founded a mapping-related startup, Where 2 Technologies, which was acquired by Google in October 2004. Rasmussen ...
GeoFS. GeoFS is a multi-platform browser-based flight simulator based on the Cesium WebGL Virtual Globe. [ 2 ] The free map is based on images taken by the Sentinel-2 satellite while the HD map is from Bing Maps. [ 3 ] The game features a variety of planes including aircraft contributed from the community. [ 2 ]
Computer simulation. A 48-hour computer simulation of Typhoon Mawar using the Weather Research and Forecasting model. Process of building a computer model, and the interplay between experiment, simulation, and theory. Computer simulation is the running of a mathematical model on a computer, the model being designed to represent the behaviour of ...
Google Maps is available as a mobile app for the Android and iOS mobile operating systems. The first mobile version of Google Maps (then known as Google Local for Mobile) was launched in beta in November 2005 for mobile platforms supporting J2ME. [186] [187] [188] It was released as Google Maps for Mobile in 2006. [189]
Google Map Maker. Google Map Maker was a map editing service launched by Google in June 2008. [2] In geographies where it is hard to find providers of good map data, user contributions were used to increase map quality. Changes to Google Map Maker were intended to appear on Google Maps only after sufficient review by Google moderators.
Brian McClendon. Brian A McClendon (born 1964) is an American software executive, engineer, and inventor. [1] He was a co-founder and angel investor in Keyhole, Inc., a geospatial data visualization company that was purchased by Google in 2004 [2][3] to produce Google Earth. Keyhole itself was spun off from another company called Intrinsic ...
Hack computer. The Hack Computer is a theoretical computer design created by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken and described in their book, The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles.[1] In using the term “modern”, the authors refer to a digital, binary machine that is patterned according to the von ...