June 22nd, 2024

Virtually Hawaii

Virtually Hawaii by University of Hawaii researchers offers virtual field trips to Hawaiian islands with Kilauea Volcano data. Funded by NASA, part of HPCC, with tutorials and satellite info. Contact for post-1999 inquiries.

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Virtually Hawaii

Virtually Hawaii, a project by researchers at the University of Hawaii, offers virtual field trips to various Hawaiian islands with guided tours and remote sensing data of Kilauea Volcano. Funded by NASA's IITA program, it is part of the HPCC initiative and run through the Hawaii Space Grant Consortium. The project includes Remote Sensing Tutorials, Radar and Visible/InfraRed tutorials, and a Spectral Imager to explore different wavelengths. Visitors can access satellite data, weather information, and radar images of Hawaii. Dr. Peter Mouginis-Mark holds the copyright for the project materials. For inquiries post-August 31, 1999, contact lori@puuoo.gsfc.nasa.gov. The site also features original paintings of Kilauea in eruption at VolcanoArtHawaii. Visitors are encouraged to explore the site's new content and sign the guest book.

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By @cupofjoakim - 4 months
This predates my own web developer journey by a good 15 years, and I found one feature that I'm unsure about how it ever worked.

Navigating to "Virtual Field Trips" takes you to http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/maps/butbar.map . At this page you're greeted with what I take is instructions to paint out a frameset?

```

rect index.html 0 0 79 49

rect navnew/navigator.html 80 0 159 49

rect virtual.field.trips.html 160 0 239 49

rect http://radlab.soest.hawaii.edu/satlab 240 0 319 49

rect feedback.html 320 0 399 49

```

It's obviously "shape src x y width height" (or swapped around).

I'm having issues finding a resource that explains what this is and why it seemingly worked in a browser in the 90's but not now - i.e. when it was deprecated and to what degree it was supported prior. Does anyone know more?

By @082349872349872 - 4 months
Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R15IQAVT7Rg

"Let those subtitles go, they nevah do nothin!" reminded me of carny "losim".

By @cupofjoakim - 4 months
Fascinating. I wonder what machine is processing the requests...
By @petesergeant - 4 months
I was hoping this would be a digital nomad program :-/
By @markus_zhang - 4 months
I have signed many guestbooks of that kind of websites :)
By @gizajob - 4 months
How do sites like this stay up??