should have said "NASA Worldview"
Posted by cypresstx on 8/5/2014, 11:12 am
it's how they want it cited - love this site:

"Welcome to Worldview

This tool from NASA's EOSDIS provides the capability to interactively browse global, full-resolution satellite imagery and then download the underlying data. Most of the 100+ available products are updated within three hours of observation, essentially showing the entire Earth as it looks "right now". This supports time-critical application areas such as wildfire management, air quality measurements, and flood monitoring. Arctic and Antarctic views of several products are also available for a "full globe" perspective. Browsing on tablet and smartphone devices is generally supported for mobile access to the imagery.

Worldview uses the Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS) to rapidly retrieve its imagery for an interactive browsing experience. While Worldview uses OpenLayers as its mapping library, GIBS imagery can also be accessed from Google Earth, NASA World Wind, and several other clients. We encourage interested developers to build their own clients or integrate NASA imagery into their existing ones using these services.

Imagery Use

NASA supports an open data policy and we encourage publication of imagery from Worldview; when doing so, please cite it as "NASA Worldview" and also consider including a permalink (such as this one) to allow others to explore the imagery.

Acknowledgements

Near-real time data is courtesy of LANCE data providers: AMSR-E SIPS, GES DISC, MODAPS, OMI SIPS, and FIRMS. Ocean color and temperature data provided by OBPG and PO.DAAC. Socioeconomic data supplied by SEDAC. Freeze / Thaw products supplied by NSIDC. Orbit tracks provided by space-track.org. Polar coastlines and graticules courtesy of ADD SCAR, OpenStreetMap, and PolarView. User-selectable color palettes are primarily derived from NEO. The imagery ingest and serving system (GIBS) is built by NASA/JPL and operated by NASA/GSFC. Worldview is built by the NASA/GSFC Earth Science Data Information System (ESDIS) Project and is grateful for the use of many open source projects.

Disclaimer

The information presented through this interface is provided "as is" and users bear all responsibility and liability for their use of the data. Please read the full disclaimer.

License

Copyright © 2013 - 2014 United States Government as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. All Rights Reserved. This software is licensed under the NASA Open Source Software Agreement, Version 1.3. Source code is available on github.

Version: 0.6.7 - May 30, 2014 - 13:04 UTC (release notes)
Release Manager: Mike McGann
Responsible NASA Official: Ryan Boller"
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