The 90-metre DEM generated using TanDEM-X data is now available free of charge for scientific data use Focus: Space, Earth Observation The 90-metre TanDEM-X Digital Elevation Model has been released ...

We mentioned in our post on simulating lakes that Google Earth’s elevation data is often very inaccurate in mountainous areas. When looking around the 3D imagery of Rio de Janeiro, where the Olympics ...

What new methods can be used to help predict glacier melt patterns as climate change continues to ravage the planet? This is what a recent study published in GIScience & Remote Sensing hopes to ...

No audio available for this content. (WorldDEM image courtesy of Airbus Space & Defence) Wilpena Pound, shown above, is a natural amphitheater of mountains in the heart of Flinders Ranges National ...

The US Geological Survey (USGS) has a program called the 3D Elevation Program (3DEP). From the USGS website: The 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) initiative is being developed to respond to growing needs ...

Mapping technology is infinitely better than it used to be, but satellites and LiDAR can never recapture the craft that went into making old-school US Geological Survey Maps. Instead, graphic designer ...

The new three-dimensional map of Earth has been completed. Mountain peaks and valley floors across the globe can now be seen with an accuracy of just one metre. The global elevation model was created ...

In 2011 the unmanned Dawn spacecraft became humanity’s first ever emissary to the huge asteroid Vesta, which resides in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. And using images collected by the ...