Now you can enjoy the paradise that is Hawaii and not even leave
your computer! Virtually Hawaii is online at
http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/space/hawaii/index_orig.html
Virtually Hawaii is a large collection of satellite, aircraft, and ground images of Hawaii. This well-designed, visually stunning site offers near-real-time weather satellite images, live video from two islands, and interactive QuickTime panoramas and games.
Virtually Hawaii has been one of the most popular sites on the Web, and it's easy to see why.
The site's primary target audience is tourists who are planning to visit Hawaii and interested laypersons who want to know more about the islands and remote sensing. Other site visitors include K-12 students writing papers, undergraduates using the data for research projects, and local industries and state offices who draw upon the wall-to-wall satellite coverage of the islands to study numerous areas and features.
Special sections, such as Virtual Field Trips, allow visitors to travel to many different places in Hawaii, simply by pointing-and-clicking. Virtually Hawaii also features quizzes that challenge visitors, and includes a guest book for visitor feedback.
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Among the activities on your Virtually Hawaii getaway:
- See what all of the state of Hawaii is like RIGHT NOW from the GOES-9 satellite.
- Take a virtual field trip to Kauai, Molokai, Oahu, the Big Island, or Maui for a guided tour that includes many air and ground photographs. There are also several tours of the Kilauea volcano that include remote sensing data and a multitude of interesting local features.
- Check out the two new remote sensing tutorials. You can pick either the Radar Tutorial or the Visible and Infrared Tutorial. You might also like to work with the interactive Spectral Imager to see how different wavelengths change a view of Honolulu.
- Follow links to find real-time satellite data and weather for Hawaii and the Pacific.
- Try out the Remote Image Navigator to see lots of space and aircraft images of Hawaii.
Virtually Hawaii is one of several Internet projects funded by NASA's Learning Technologies Project (LTP), which is part of the High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) initiative. Virtually Hawaii is managed through the Hawaii Space Grant Consortium, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Virtually Hawaii is brought to you by researchers at the University of Hawaii, Proxemy Research, Inc., Terra Systems, Inc., Hawaii, and private company sponsors.
Curator: Randolph Kim
Responsible NASA Official: Mark
Leon
Last Updated: 07/02/2002
