A new map of the South Orkney Islands has been released by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) – the first UK published, topographic map of the region in almost 40 years. Created by the Mapping and ...

The most complete digital topographic map of the Earth has been produced. The map was created using measurements from the ASTER instrument (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection ...

Previously, the most complete topographic set of data publicly available was from NASA’s Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. That mission mapped 80 percent of Earth’s landmass, between 60 ...