The most complete digital topographic ever made of the Earth was released by NASA today (Oct. 17). The map, known as a global digital elevation model, was created from images collected by the ...

The most complete digital topographic ever made of the Earth was released by NASA Monday. The map, known as a global digital elevation model, was created from images collected by the Japanese ...

NASA and Japan released a new digital topographic map of Earth Monday that covers more of our planet than ever before. The map was produced with detailed measurements from NASA’s Terra spacecraft.

USGS topoView The maps can be downloaded in various formats, including KMZ for viewing in Google Earth. A topographic map of Fort Smith, Arkansas, from 1887.

This is pretty nifty: a new elevation map of the Earth has just been released by NASA and Japan. It’s a “significantly improved” version of one that came out in 2009. It uses Japan’s ASTER ...

NASA and Japan released a significantly improved version of the most complete digital topographic map of Earth on Oct. 17, produced with detailed measurements from NASA's Terra spacecraft. The map ...

I believe it started today with this blog entry at The Map Room, but suddenly there is a resurgence of interest in generating topographical maps in Google Earth. I’ve spoken about techniques for ...

Over time stereo image pairs are created, and these can be used to create very high-resolution elevation maps (called topographic maps) of the surface of the Earth. The new images are higher-res than ...

NASA and Japan released a new digital topographic map of Earth June 29 that covers more of our planet than ever before. The map was produced with detailed measurements from NASA’s Terra ...

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has established another milestone in 3D Earth mapping with the 'TanDEM-X 30-metre DEM Change Map', which provides a global overview of changes to Earth's surface.

The most complete digital topographic ever made of the Earth was released by NASA today (Oct. 17). The map, known as a global digital elevation model, was created from images collected by the ...

New topographic map of Earth is the most complete digital one ever, covering 99 percent of Earth's landmass and adding hundreds of thousands of new satellite images that are combined to create a 3 ...