Coordinated Earth: Measuring Space in the Near-Earth Environment

Tags: SMD E/PO Community | Visualizations/ Video

With all the complex coordinate systems I use in generating near-Earth data visualizations, I needed a way to check if I had done the transformations correctly.

So I generated a simple visualization that displayed the coordinate axes of the different systems and their reference directions.  Since it might be of value to educators, I made it a little nicer than the bare-bones original test version.  A movie, stills and a description of the coordinate systems represented is available on the SVS site (Coordinated Earth: Measuring Space in the Near-Earth Environment).

I'm considering developing something similar for solar-centered coordinate systems.

Comments and feedback, corrections, etc. welcome.