University of Minnesota-Led Project Releases 3-D Elevation Maps of Alaska for White House Arctic Initiative

Thursday, September 1, 2016 - 15:31 in Astronomy & Space

Less than one year after President Barack Obama announced a White House Arctic Initiative that included better mapping of the area, a team of researchers led by the University of Minnesota Polar Geospatial Center released the first-ever publicly available set of high-resolution, three-dimensional topographic maps of the entire state of Alaska.

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