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Skybird

07-01-09 10:06 AM

NASA makes ASTER imagery available to the public

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/20090629.html

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/fea...-20090629.html

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"This is the most complete, consistent global digital elevation data yet made available to the world," said Woody Turner, Aster program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "This unique global set of data will serve users and researchers from a wide array of disciplines that need elevation and terrain information."

Letum

07-01-09 11:09 AM

Jolly good!

I used to have to pay a lot of money for DEM maps.

Iceman

07-06-09 04:34 AM

What different applications could one use this for? Can it be used in Celestia?

goldorak

07-06-09 05:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Iceman (Post 1129484)

What different applications could one use this for? Can it be used in Celestia?

It could be used for instance in Flightgear an open source flight simulator.

Dowly

07-06-09 05:13 AM

Nice! Will have to give it a try with Vue 7. :yeah:

Fincuan

07-06-09 05:53 AM

Freefalcon6 with new terrain data, here we come :D

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