SAN FRANCISCO — Communications electronics firm Harris Corp. has teamed up with the imagery provider MapMart to offer highly detailed digital elevation models to commercial customers. Harris developed ...

The International Water Institute will launch a $5 million project today designed to develop a high-resolution digital elevation map of the entire U.S. portion of the Red River Basin. A ceremony for ...

This digital elevation map, produced from satellite data overlain on an image taken by the Mars Orbital Camera on NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, shows changes in elevation along the trek of ...

When National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency partners plan operations, the agency provides them with products that identify the latitude and longitude of various locations, so that they can pinpoint ...

When you think about the world of cartography, antique sepia maps are likely the first images that come to mind. But nomadic digital cartographer Robert Szucs saw the potential to turn nature’s ...

The remote identification of forest canopy gaps from Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) built from aerial photographs is potentially a viable alternative to ground-based field surveys. In this study a ...

dvGarage, a QuickTime-only site dedicated to “building the next generation of visual media artists,” has released “The Terrain Toolkit.” Converted from USGS Digital Elevation Map (DEM) data, the ...

Less than one year after President Barack Obama announced a White House Arctic Initiative that included better mapping of the area, a team of researchers has released the first-ever publicly available ...