PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 6, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- 3D geospatial company Cesium has announced the
release of Cesium Moon Terrain, the first comprehensive, precise,
and readily-available 3D dataset of the moon.
Although Cesium Moon Terrain was developed to support NASA's
Artemis mission and other international space agencies, the dataset
can be accessed and used by anyone to build advanced visualizations
and simulations.
Cesium Moon Terrain is composed of precise terrain and imagery
from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) program and other
sources, and is provided as 3D Tiles, the Open Geospatial
Consortium Community Standard created by Cesium.
"We launched Cesium Moon Terrain as an accurate and
interoperable 3D Tiles canvas to support the international interest
in lunar exploration and building structures on the moon's
surface," said Cesium CEO Patrick
Cozzi. "Cesium Moon Terrain will enable engineers, system
integrators, and digital content creators to build simulations,
mission plans, and real-time operations experiences."
Cesium Moon Terrain was recently demonstrated at the Digital
Twin for Lunar Development Workshop held at NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory. The workshop brought the space enterprise community
together to focus on advancing digital twins for NASA and the
creation of an open, interoperable platform for a lunar digital
ecosystem.
Early adopters of Cesium Moon Terrain include Ansys, who is
using the data in conjunction with their RF Channel Modeler to
understand the impacts introduced by challenging lunar locations,
such as polar regions, in analyzing communications system designs
intended to serve participants on the lunar surface.
Another is Buendea, which is collaborating with the NASA
Advanced Operations Concept Lab on developing the XR Operations
Support System (XOSS) to support real-time simulations on the Moon
and Mars. Buendea is interested in Cesium Moon Terrain for its
potential to enhance their ongoing projects.
"We're excited about the potential of Cesium Moon Terrain to
accelerate our work, including our efforts with NASA, to accurately
plan and simulate explorations of the lunar surface," said
Julian Reyes, Founder of
Buendea.
To access Cesium Moon Terrain, sign up for an account, or sign
in to Cesium ion. Users can create a Cesium Story, incorporate the
data into a web application with CesiumJS, or build advanced
visualizations with Cesium for Unreal and Cesium for Unity. Cesium
Moon Terrain is also available for Cesium ion
Self-Hosted.
Cesium Moon Terrain can be used as a base layer to place models
of habitats, vehicles, or rovers on the lunar surface. Users with
their own high resolution terrain data can embed it within Cesium
Moon Terrain to create a continuous and accurate 3D
environment.
About Cesium - The Platform for 3D
Geospatial
Cesium created 3D Tiles, the Open
Geospatial Consortium community standard for streaming massive 3D
geospatial data. Use Cesium ion to optimize, host, and combine your
data with curated global 3D content, and stream to any device. With
unique expertise at the intersection of 3D geospatial and computer
graphics, Cesium is deeply committed to openness and
interoperability through open standards, open APIs, and open source
offerings like CesiumJS, Cesium for Unreal, Cesium for Unity, and
Cesium for Omniverse.
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