Abstract:
EARTH UPDATE is an interactive, real-time display system of Earth images and
data designed for Museums and Schools and available to the general public as a
"museum in a case"! Running from the CD-ROM, the program displays hundreds of
images and movies of the best of earth images and data, documented, with web
references of how to find out more. Roughly 15% of the material represents
"today's data"
... - weather maps, bioactivity maps, earthquake maps, etc. By
copying the software onto a hard drive, you can see "today's data" by
downloading today's images free from the internet with a single click. Museums
can subscribe to our automatic updating service. Each of the submodules can be
run separately, resulting in 6 different kiosks if desired. Over a million
visitors have interacted with our software in museum and school settings. This
powerful software suite is now available for purchase as a single CD which
includes both Mac OSX and Windows (2000/XP) versions.
http://earth.rice.edu/connected/earthupdate.html 
