So it recently awarded a grant to a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) researcher to develop better computer terrain maps of the surface of Earth and even our moon or Mars. RPI will develop ...

This unique global set of data will serve users and researchers from a wide array of disciplines that need elevation and terrain ... topographic map, where 80 per cent of the planet's landmass ...

Google has announced a new mode called Terrain for Google Maps which lets you see relief maps of 3D terrain. This is a very useful mode if you are going hiking, mountain biking, skiing ...

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they'll knowjust what kind of terrain to expect thanks to scientists at the European SpaceAgency who are producing the first "hiker's maps" of the red planet. The newtopographic maps, based on ...