12/08/2020  04:42 PM         1,044,421 Moon.zip
 Directory of \Moon-unzipped

12/08/2020  04:41 PM             1,628 ReadMe-Moon.txt <- This file

01/12/2004  11:38 AM           178,584 Moon044s.pdf    <- Program documentation
                                    ...page two describes the program features.
                              (E.g.: The Appolo landing sites are all plotted.)

05/31/2002  09:35 AM           462,848 moon.exf        <- change .exf to .exe
                                    ...and run the .exe.

02/28/2002  09:02 AM           525,366 MoonS.Bmp       <- The lunar image
                                    ...provided by Washington U., St. Louis,MO.

11/08/2001  12:27 AM           237,568 glut32.dll      <- Accesses OpenGL

11/17/2003  03:22 PM           137,147 ScrnDmp1.jpg    <- A screen dump
The dark gray, upper left text of ScrnDmp1.jpg names Moon.exe's predecessors.

The 2002 .exe will run full-screen on high resolution monitors; however
the lateral:vertical scaling assumed a 1024:768 screensize ratio; other
screen ratios result in ellipsoidal distortion of the viewing sphere. 
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Before Google Earth materialized... there was Moon.exe.  Before that...

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In 1994 I invented the math for surveying from non-coplanar images, which
opened the frontier of desktop surveying using two-or-more non-stereo-pair
images of the same scene. Geospan Corp. subsequently produced surveyable
street-level imagery for Google in the latter 1990's.
                                            Ref.: Geospan U.S.Patent #5,633,946

Geospan Corp.'s entire-city, street-level video data collection ~1997-2003:
Accurate real-world WGS-84 ECEF vehicle 6DoF coordinates (X,Y,Z,Roll,Pitch,Yaw)
when each image was taken were computed during post-processing. Raw Novatel
dual-frequency-GPS data, augmented by a Rubidium atomic clock, and the finest
kearfott inertial navigation sensor(s) that civilian money could buy - provided
the raw vehicle navigation data. Awesome INS/GPS navigation post-processing
software that retained its accuracy in the 'urban canyon' (where high-rise
buildings can cause sustained loss of GPS signals) was provided to Geospan by
Californian _______________, . Geospan's Steve Boggs had full responsibility
for the vehicles' entire data collection system, including the eight precisely-
time-stamped high-definition-video image channels, and also for the desktop
surveying customer interface. I provided all of the 8DoF camera calibration
methodology & the desktop surveying algorithms. The vehicle crews and data
post-processing & production people provided the extensive, meticulous
operational attention-to-details needed to realize surveyable non-coplanar
imagery of entire cities, and then to deliver entire-city customer-specified
datasets. The vision & sustained perseverance of Geospan's founding President,
Ted Lachinski, were key in realizing the company's technical & commercial
accomplishments. 
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