Title :
Mapping the world in 3-D
Author_Institution :
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, Jet Propulsion Lab., Pasadena, CA, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. Remember when the world was flat? Not any more. In February, 2000 NASA, using six astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor, spent 11 days gathering data for the first complete three-dimensional global map of the planet as part of the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. The 12 terabytes they collected will revolutionize knowledge of the Earth, and have applications in fields as disparate as geologic mapping and petroleum exploration, flight training and navigation, siting cell phone transmitters, water drainage modeling and disaster planning. The author describes how it was done!.
Keywords :
cartography; geophysical techniques; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; terrain mapping; topography (Earth); Earth; NASA; Shuttle Radar Topography Mission; Space Shuttle Endeavor; cell phone transmitter siting; disaster planning; flight training; geodesy; geologic mapping; geophysical measurement technique; land surface topography; navigation; petroleum exploration; radar remote sensing; satellite remote sensing; spaceborne radar; three-dimensional global map; water drainage modeling; Cellular phones; Earth; Geology; NASA; Navigation; Petroleum; Planets; Space shuttles; Spaceborne radar; Surfaces;
Conference_Titel :
Aerospace Conference Proceedings, 2002. IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7231-X
DOI :
10.1109/AERO.2002.1036822
