New ASTER Global Satellite Digital Elevation Model Data Now Available Online

Paul bristolia at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 1 15:43:00 EDT 2009

Articles that describe this new global Digital Elevation Model (DEM) dataset are:

1. Most Complete Earth Map Published, BBC News, June 30, 2009

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8126197.stm

2. Most Complete Topographic Map of Earth, GM International

http://www.gim-international.com/news/id3889-Most_Complete_Topographic_Map_of_Earth.html

"NASA and Japan released a new digital topographic map of Earth Monday
that covers more of our planet than ever before. The map was produced with
detailed measurements from NASA's Terra spacecraft. The new global digital
elevation model of Earth was created from nearly 1.3 million individual
stereo-pair images collected by the Japanese Advanced Spaceborne Thermal
Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or ASTER, instrument aboard Terra.
NASA and Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI),
developed the data set. It is available online to users everywhere at no cost."

Homepages for the ASTER Global DEM are:

http://www.gdem.aster.ersdac.or.jp/

https://wist.echo.nasa.gov/~wist/api/imswelcome/

https://wist.echo.nasa.gov/wist-bin/api/ims.cgi?mode=MAINSRCH&JS=1

Yours,

Paul V. Heinrich