In 2011 the unmanned Dawn spacecraft became humanity’s first ever emissary to the huge asteroid Vesta, which resides in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. And using images collected by the ...

The US Geological Survey (USGS) has a program called the 3D Elevation Program (3DEP). From the USGS website: The 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) initiative is being developed to respond to growing needs ...

The 90-metre DEM generated using TanDEM-X data is now available free of charge for scientific data use Focus: Space, Earth Observation The 90-metre TanDEM-X Digital Elevation Model has been released ...

Today, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and NSF released 3-D topographic maps that show Alaska’s terrain in greater detail than ever before. Powered by the Blue Waters supercomputer, the ...

RESTON, Va., July 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. (NASDAQ: BWMN), a national engineering services and program management firm, has been selected by the U.S. Geological Survey ...

In Kotzebue a year ago, President Obama called for a publicly available high-resolution elevation map of Alaska. And today it’s here. The maps will help Alaskans monitor the effects of climate change.

Zermatt, Switzerland – February 19, 2013: senseFly successfully tests the eBee, its new fully autonomous drone for mapping, in the Swiss ski resort of Zermatt. senseFly successfully demonstrated the ...

Since the release of iOS 15 in 2021, Apple Maps has been rolling out a more detailed map with custom-designed 3D landmarks in major cities around the world. This week, both the more detailed map and ...

New 3D maps reveal Buxton’s beach lost 800 dump trucks of sand and nine feet of elevation in five weeks — a warning, scientists say, of how fast North Carolina’s coast is collapsing.