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- From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
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- Subject: Re: World Digital Terrain Images/Files
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.171740.25716@unocal.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 17:17:40 GMT
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- In article <Bxz0rF.Anq@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> jahern@geohub.gcn.uoknor.edu writes:
- >I am looking for the source of those gorgeous color, shaded-relief
- >images of the globe based on digital terrain data. These show the
- >surface topography of the planet, with ocean water "removed."
- >My first choice would be a file or files, along with display
- >software, so any perspective or scale could be viewed. Second
- >choice would be hard copy prints or slides.
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- A half-degree subset of the NOAA topography is at hanauma.stanford.edu.
- It is data and not an image- binary floating point meters.
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