Software Reviews : Small Blue Planet for Windows Publisher: NowWhat Software,2303 Sacramento,San Francisco,CA 94115;(415) 885-1869 Year of Publication: 1993 Version Reviewed: 1.2 Materials: one CD-ROM disk (manual on disk jacket) Price: $79.95 Machine Specificity: IBM-compatible 80386,80486,or Pentium com puter System Requirements: Hardware—4MB RAM,CD-ROM drive,mouse;software—Microsoft Windows 3.1 or later and MS-DOS Effectiveness: Good User Friendliness: Excellent Documentation: Good

This product, subtitled "the real picture atlas," is the only microcomputer atlas to specialize in satellite photography. In addition to a vast collection of these remote sensor photographs, the atlas includes a zoomable topographical global relief map based on satellite data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad ministration, a zoomable world political map, a "Chronosphere" map displaying information about time and day/night shading, and a gray-scale United States relief map based on data from the United States Geological Survey. One may browse through the photographs through a gallery function or access them from the maps (red dots indicate their location).