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NASA and its partners at Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) have released an improved and updated version of the most complete topographical map of Earth ever compiled.
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 ...
It's a big improvement on the previous best topographic map publicly available, which was produced by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, and surveyed 80 percent of the world. The Obama ...
In the April number of the Geographical Review, a coloured world map on a scale of 1 to 50,000,000 compiled by R. R. Platt shows the distribution of official topographic maps as available at the ...
The British Topographic Maps were made in 1910, and are a valuable source of information about Assyrian villages just prior to the Turkish Genocide and expatriation of the Assyrians from their ...
A new geographic information systems (GIS)-ready topographic-map-style template is now available from the USGS National Geospatial Program. The Topo TNM Style Template can be readily used with the ...
This new topographic map from Arizona State University in Tempe ... The richness of detail should inspire lunar geologists around the world for years to come.” Shaded relief images can be ...
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) announced that more than 400 new topographic maps are now available for the state of Alaska. The new maps are part of the U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Mapping ...
"The ASTER global digital elevation model was already the most complete, consistent global topographic map in the world," said Woody Turner, ASTER program scientist at NASA Headquarters in ...