EarthBrowser is a super cool Adobe AIR application that allows users to see all sorts of data on top of a 3D representation of earth. Data such as earthquakes, weather, clouds, tropical storms, tectonic plates and more can all be enabled or disabled over top of a 3D Earth, with some data displayed using a time animation. Its a bit like Google Earth or Microsoft Virtual Earth, but done in Flash and AIR by one guy.

You can spin the globe and browse events by spinning the globe and then clicking on the data points - you can even go back in time, and change the data in view by moving a slide back - data from up to 6 hours earlier is available.

The use of AIR is well done, as it allows you to drag and drop KML files from the browser or desktop into the application - an easy way to add data to the application.

The application is written by Matt Giger. You can follow Matt's progress on his blog. Word is that he'll be at Google next month talking about EarthBrowser - more details should be available on his blog>.

Matt is selling the application for $29.95 (finally an application that isn't supported with advertising!) Steve Wozniak was apparently the 11th person to purchase a copy, which is pretty cool.