Vertical Data in Google Earth
May 14th, 2010 by Ken Mankoff
Google Earth does not officially support vertical curtains of data. However, it does support buildings with images on the side. If you are willing to stretch the definition of a building, you can put any vertical data you like into KML. This implementation was inspired by the Goddard Earth Science (GES) Data and Information Service Center (DISC) sample files for CloudSat, CALIPSO, and Aqua.
If you use IDL and would like to image your data in Google Earth, be it points, lines, regions, surface images, or vertical data, you should be using my IDL interface to the KML API.
Vertical Data in Google Earth
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