X3D Earth Technical Requirements Workshop

Requirements, Capabilities, Challenges, Partnerships and Next Steps

Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California USA, 14-15 November 2006

Summary of X3D Earth goals. Web3D Consortium members are preparing to build a standards-based X3D Earth usable by governments, industry, scientists, academia and the general public. X3D mappings of world terrain, cartography and imagery will be made available for use in any scene, making it easy to geospatially reference and share X3D models. Open standards, the Web architecture, XML languages and open protocols will be used throughout. Both commercial and open-source software codebases will be able to utilize these best practices and contribute to these shared assets.

Workshop goal. Participants identified and prioritized the technical requirements, available capabilities, open challenges and strategic partnerships needed for a Web3D working group to execute this ambitious project. Emphasis was placed on extensibly adapting existing resources and cooperating to achieve shared goals, especially with other open geospatial organizations and standards. Workshop results document participant contributions, next-step activities and goal milestones.

Summary Report

Extensible 3D (X3D) Earth Technical Requirements Workshop: Summary Report, Don Brutzman, Amela Sadagic and Terry Norbraten, Editors, Technical Report NPS-MV-07-003, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California, 1 August 2007.

Available online at http://www.web3d.org/x3d-earth/workshop2006/report.html

Organizers

• Don Brutzman and Amela Sadagic, hosted by NPS Modeling Virtual Environments Simulation (MOVES) Institute

Workshop Information

• Call for Participation
• Workshop Agenda
• Workshop Overview by Don Brutzman NPS
• Workshop Conclusions by Don Brutzman NPS

Contributions and Participants

Other participants

• Rob Glidden, independent consultant
• Rick Goldberg, Aniviza
• Michael Moody, Schlumberger
• Terry Norbraten, NPS Modeling Virtual Environments Simulation (MOVES) Institute \
• Rita Turkowski, Executive Director, Web3D Consortium

Photographs are also available:

• QuickTime movie: size 5 MB, duration 1:54 min
• Pictures: size 47.5 MB (44 photographs)

Quicklook Summary

The workshop was well attended and very productive. Participants spent the first day looking at many relevant technologies, capturing potentially relevant technical capabitilies and requirements as they proceeded.

A workshop report is being reviewed and will be distributed publicly.

The following preliminary conclusions were drawn.

Revised 16 August 2007