Forest height in Indonesia and surrounding countries. NASA researchers have released a Google Earth version of a map showing the height of the world’s forests. The map was first published in ...

But now scientists have produced a new 2D map that accurately shows Earth and its continents. ... The Equal Earth with a height-to-width ratio of 1:2.05 is slightly wider than the Robinson at 1:1.97.

The elevation of nearly every place on Earth is now available, thanks to a NASA satellite mission. By analyzing 1.3 million images collected by a Japanese instrument aboard the spacecraft, the ...

The map, which uses data drawn from NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) as well as the Terra and Aqua Earth-observation satellites to show forest canopy height around the ...

Lefsky based the map on data from more than 250 million laser pulses collected during a seven-year period. Because each pulse returns information about a tiny portion of the surface, lidar offered ...

Over the course of its mission, the spacecraft — which orbits Earth at an altitude of around 533 miles (857 kilometers) — will measure the height of water over 90% of Earth's surface every 21 ...

Why the moon looks like a potato on NASA’s new eclipse maps The newer mapping method takes elevation on Earth and the moon’s topography into consideration. September 29, 2024 ...

The Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA) map has a resolution more than 100 times sharper than previous representations. "At this resolution, you can see almost everything," Ian Howat ...