Re: [Flightgear-devel] NASA Goes 'Down Under' for Shuttle Mapping Mission Finale
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis L. Olson schrieb: >> A bit more interesting is the high-res (4500x5800 pixel) shaded picture >> of New Zealand. >> >> But I wonder what the smoothed stuff around Milford Sound is. >> >> Probably it's due to shading/reflections of the radar beam. Milford >> Sound is a fjord, where you have drops from ~2000 Meters stright down to >> the sea! (Oh, and they have very tasty crayfish in there that I had the >> pleasure to catch while scubadiving...) >> >> When will be the secenery for New Zealand be created? So we can have a >> look at the data at Milford ourselfs. >> >> Ah, there's also an airport at Milfors Sound, that can be a great >> starting point: >> http://www.world-airport-codes.com/new-zealand/milford-sound-airport-4721.html >> >> >> (It must be a spectacular flight to and from Milford Sound) >> >> > > Not yet officially announced, but try: > >http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/scenery-0.9.7.html Thanks! Milford Airport is known by FGFS as "NZMF - Milfors Sound". The view is - -as expected- great! A real world picture out of a plane: http://www.glenorchy.net.nz/pix/milford.jpg But there's a scenery bug: The airport has 2 holes (fore some reason a river runs through it in the scenery) *and* the runway has a significant slope, so takeoff is quite hard. There are also a few other bugs in the secenery, but they are due to wrongly aligned data. So we probably can't do anything about that. It's surprisingly difficult to find a map. The best I could do: http://www.doc.govt.nz/images/Southland/Marine-Res/Milford-MarineRes.jpg This shows how the setup should be CU, Christian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB3qdBlhWtxOxWNFcRAg0AAJ0S+XQigtfTxnTt+cuy8frDnQi1zQCcCQY7 SIzA/4mtQNmCoGjOIGb1Mb8= =Sbsd -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] NASA Goes 'Down Under' for Shuttle Mapping Mission Finale
Christian Mayer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon Berndt schrieb: Culminating more than four years of processing data, NASA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency have completed Earth's most extensive global topographic map. Great!!! To view a new fly-over animation of New Zealand on the Internet, visit http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/ . The flyover is very disappointing. Our old DEM could easily create the same results. A bit more interesting is the high-res (4500x5800 pixel) shaded picture of New Zealand. But I wonder what the smoothed stuff around Milford Sound is. Probably it's due to shading/reflections of the radar beam. Milford Sound is a fjord, where you have drops from ~2000 Meters stright down to the sea! (Oh, and they have very tasty crayfish in there that I had the pleasure to catch while scubadiving...) When will be the secenery for New Zealand be created? So we can have a look at the data at Milford ourselfs. Ah, there's also an airport at Milfors Sound, that can be a great starting point: http://www.world-airport-codes.com/new-zealand/milford-sound-airport-4721.html (It must be a spectacular flight to and from Milford Sound) Not yet officially announced, but try: http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/scenery-0.9.7.html Curt. -- Curtis Olsonhttp://www.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org Unique text:2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] NASA Goes 'Down Under' for Shuttle Mapping Mission Finale
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon Berndt schrieb: > Culminating more than four years of processing data, NASA and the National > Geospatial-Intelligence Agency have completed Earth's most extensive global > topographic > map. Great!!! > To view a new fly-over animation of New Zealand on the Internet, visit > http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/ . The flyover is very disappointing. Our old DEM could easily create the same results. A bit more interesting is the high-res (4500x5800 pixel) shaded picture of New Zealand. But I wonder what the smoothed stuff around Milford Sound is. Probably it's due to shading/reflections of the radar beam. Milford Sound is a fjord, where you have drops from ~2000 Meters stright down to the sea! (Oh, and they have very tasty crayfish in there that I had the pleasure to catch while scubadiving...) When will be the secenery for New Zealand be created? So we can have a look at the data at Milford ourselfs. Ah, there's also an airport at Milfors Sound, that can be a great starting point: http://www.world-airport-codes.com/new-zealand/milford-sound-airport-4721.html (It must be a spectacular flight to and from Milford Sound) CU, Christian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB3l65lhWtxOxWNFcRAnkqAJ4xiS5Q1Si00zZF6biWDAjLBpCP0ACfT4h+ sC+O307qZrK0aI4jpR1Z7Xo= =6/u0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
[Flightgear-devel] NASA Goes 'Down Under' for Shuttle Mapping Mission Finale
Alan Buis (818) 354-0474 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Gretchen Cook-Anderson (202) 358-0836 NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. Howard Cohen (301) 227-3105 National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, Md. News Release: 2005-004 Jan. 6, 2005 NASA Goes Down Under for Shuttle Mapping Mission Finale Culminating more than four years of processing data, NASA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency have completed Earth's most extensive global topographic map. The data, extensive enough to fill the U.S. Library of Congress, were gathered during the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, which flew in February 2000 on the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The digital elevation maps encompass 80 percent of Earth's landmass. They reveal for the first time large, detailed swaths of Earth's topography previously obscured by persistent cloudiness. The data will benefit scientists, engineers, government agencies and the public with an ever-growing array of uses. "This is among the most significant science missions the Shuttle has ever performed, and it's probably the most significant mapping mission of any single type ever," said Dr. Michael Kobrick, mission project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The final data release covers Australia and New Zealand in unprecedented uniform detail. It also covers more than 1,000 islands comprising much of Polynesia and Melanesia in the South Pacific, as well as islands in the South Indian and Atlantic oceans. "Many of these islands have never had their topography mapped," Kobrick said. "Their low topography makes them vulnerable to tidal effects, storm surges and long-term sea level rise. Knowing exactly where rising waters will go is vital to mitigating the effects of future disasters such as the Indian Ocean tsunami." Data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission are being used for applications ranging from land use planning to "virtual" Earth exploration. "Future missions using similar technology could monitor changes in Earth's topography over time, and even map the topography of other planets," said Dr. John LaBrecque, manager of NASA's Solid Earth and Natural Hazards Program, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. The missions radar system mapped Earth from 56 degrees south to 60 degrees north of the equator. The resolution of the publicly available data is three arc-seconds (1/1,200th of a degree of latitude and longitude, about 295 feet, at Earth's equator). The mission is a collaboration among NASA, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and the German and Italian space agencies. The missions role in space history was honored with a display of the mission's canister and mast antenna at the Smithsonian Institution's Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Va. To view a selection of new images from the Shuttle Radar Topography Missions latest data set on the Internet, visit http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/SRTM . To view a new fly-over animation of New Zealand on the Internet, visit http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/ . To learn more about this mission, visit http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm . For an interactive multimedia geography quiz using data from the mission, visit http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/srtm/ . For information about NASA and agency programs, visit: http://www.nasa.gov . -end- To remove yourself from all mailings from NASA Jet Propulsion Labratory, please click here ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
