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Cesium is the open platform for software applications designed to unleash the power of 3D data.

Everything your software application needs to utilize 3D geospatial data: visualization, data pipelines, curated data, and analytics. 

We proudly collaborate with government agencies and the United States Department of Defense.

We work with select partners to bring about industry-wide innovations.

Build Innovative 3D Geospatial Applications

Cesium empowers developers across industries to maximize the potential of their 3D data.

Why Cesium

Best in class implementation of 3D Tiles for streaming massive amounts of data.

Visualize and analyze your data on the world's most precise rendering engine.

Open and interoperable to support data compatibility and community collaboration.

Get started with a free Cesium ion community account

Cesium Makes Commercial Real Estate Analysis More Accessible for Hundreds of JLL Brokers

Building the Open Metaverse event at SIGGRAPH 2021

Watch the Tenth Red Bull X-Alps Live with Cesium

"Cesium’s expertise in cloud-based geospatial software and emphasis on open standards for streaming massive amounts of 3D content fits with Epic’s vision for an open metaverse."

Epic Games teams up with Cesium to bring 3D geospatial data to Unreal

"Collaboration and commitment to openness between geospatial and game technologists is driving innovation in both fields – and across industries."

"Tomorrow's flying Uber vehicles will rely on Cesium's open-source 3D geospatial software for its in-air driving."

Uber Air takes one software step toward the sky

The Cesium platform provides the foundations any software application needs to utilize 3D geospatial data: visualization, data pipelines, curated data, and analytics. Based on open standards for data formats, open APIs for customization and integration, and built with an open source core, Cesium is open, interoperable, and incredibly precise.

Cesium: The Platform for 3D Geospatial

CesiumJS 1.83

Our unique approach to advancing 3D geospatial technology

Open standards, open APIs, and open source software

An open specification for streaming massive 3D content

Customer and community applications powered by Cesium

Industry events where you can find the Cesium team 

The end-to-end platform for 3D geospatial

Tiling, 3D global content & hosting in the cloud

3D Tiling Pipeline

Enabling the 3D geospatial ecosystem in Unreal Engine

CesiumJS, Cesium Tiling Pipeline & Cesium ion SDK

Use Cases: Drones

Hands-on tutorials, API references & other documentation

Sandcastle, a live-coding app for CesiumJS examples

Slides, videos, and other Cesium presentation materials 

The fastest way to get answers from the community and team

Introduction to Cesium Stories

Create an Interactive 3D Presentation with Cesium Stories

Styling 3D Tiles

Visualizing Time Dynamic Data

Visualizing Time Dynamic Data with Cesium Stories

Set Location for Data Uploaded to Cesium ion

Set location for data uploaded to Cesium ion

Building Global Scenes with Georeferenced Sublevels

Build global scenes with georeferenced sublevels

Transition Between Locations on the Globe

Transition between locations on the globe

Build a Flight Tracker with Cesium for Unreal

Procedurally Spawning Foliage with Cesium for Unreal

Visualize a Proposed Building in a 3D City

This tutorial explains how to integrate the Cesium npm module from webpack, and explores more advanced webpack configurations for optimizing an application using CesiumJS.

The Platform for 3D Geospatial

Developer Platform

Mission Support

Digital Transformation

Build Innovative 3D Geospatial Applications

Performant

Precise

Open