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(2016, September 1). 3-D elevation maps of Alaska for released for White House Arctic Initiative. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 / 09 ...

FAIRBANKS — In a trip last year that highlighted the impacts of global climate change on Alaska, President Barack Obama announced plans in Kotzebue to create new high-quality, high-resolution maps ...

Unfortunately, the maps were wrong. Alaska, it turns out, ... has launched the 3D Elevation Program, an effort to chart all 50 states with airborne lasers (lidar) or radar (ifsar).

Previous topographic maps of Alaska only resolved to about 100 feet across. But the new data, called Arctic Digital Elevation Models, or ArcticDEMs, based on satellite imagery, has a resolution of ...

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 ...

Alaska’s outdated maps make flying a peril, ... A 2012 report on the benefits of better elevation data drew support from Idaho's J.R. Simplot Co. (precision agriculture), ...