US releases enhanced shuttle land elevation data

Wednesday, September 24, 2014 - 06:31 in Astronomy & Space

High-resolution topographic data generated from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) in 2000, previously only available for the United States, will be released globally over the next year, the White House announced today. The announcement was made at the United Nations Heads of State Climate Summit in New York.

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