CEON 3D

CEON 3D (a 3D geobrowser):

CEON 3D is a prototype application developed with ESRI’s free ArcGIS Explorer virtual globe software that is somewhat similar to Google Earth. Users can use this tool to fly to areas of interest and explore networks partnered to CEON. CEON 3D can also be used to print JPEG images. CEON 3D also gives the user the ability to import maps, satellite imagery, GPS, Google Earth's KML data format and other data and view these raster or vector (points, lines and polygons) data alongside other CEON data. Importation of data is possible from the users' desktop, local area network, or external drive as well as from various web services (including real time data, satellite archives, data layers from other internet map servers etc).

Technical Notes: CEON 3D, like Google Earth, requires the download of several customizations from the CEON home server over the default ArcGIS Explorer interface.  CEON 3D requires the installation of .NET framework version 2.0 or higher and MSMXL Core services version 4.0 or higher.  CEON 3D only runs under Windows operating systems and has been tested with ArcGIS Explorer Build 480.  For your convience, these downloads have been packaged and are available here. 

If you already have ArcGIS Explorer (AGX) installed you can set the home server for AGX by navigating to File->Set Home Server and then clicking the radio button with the text "Connect to the Home Server located at".  After choosing this please type in the following text http://irpsrvgis28.utep.edu.