NASA and Japan released an improved version of a digital topographic map Oct. 17 that was produced with measurements from NASA’s Terra Earth-observing satellite. The map, known as the global digital ...

This is pretty nifty: a new elevation map of the Earth has just been released by NASA and Japan. It’s a “significantly improved” version of one that came out in 2009. It uses Japan’s ASTER, the ...

We have in the past looked at a lot of content provided by the USGS. The USGS is the provider of the data for the ‘earthquakes layer’ in Google Earth. We also looked at some of their future plans, ...

A new high resolution digital dataset and map—named Itiner-e—of roads throughout the Roman Empire around the year 150 CE is presented in research published in Scientific Data. The findings increase ...

NASA and Japan released a significantly improved version of the most complete digital topographic map of Earth on Monday, produced with detailed measurements from NASA’s Terra spacecraft. NASA and ...

NASA and Japan has released a new digital topographic map of Earth that covers more of our planet than ever before. The map was produced with detailed measurements from NASA's Terra spacecraft. NASA ...