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 ...

A digital map of the elevation of an area on the earth. The data are either collected by a private party or purchased from an organization such as the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) that has already ...

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 ...

Matt Buxton, [email protected] Sep 3, 2016 Sep 3, 2016 Updated Sep 4, 2016 FAIRBANKS — In a trip last year that highlighted the impacts of global climate change on Alaska, President Barack Obama ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The most complete digital topographic ever made of the Earth was released by NASA today (Oct. 17) ...

For outdoor lovers, no map is more iconic – or useful – than a USGS topo map. While the concentric, sepia lassos of elevation are the maps’ visual signature, their real power is the cross-referenced ...

An astonishing new map has revealed the elevation of nearly every place on Earth. The Global Digital Elevation Model was created using nearly 1.3million images collected by a Japanese camera on board ...