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Title:

TerrainBase: Worldwide Digital Terrain Data

Source:

National Geophysical Data Center
325 Broadway, E/GC1, Code 954
Boulder, CO 80303-3328
303-497-6215

Description:

This CD-ROM contains the most recent global 5-minute gridded digital terrain data of land and ocean values for the entire world. It also includes 26 regional grids that provide land elevation and ocean depth values for various areas throughout the world. They range in grid spacing from 30-seconds to 10-minutes. The locations of these regional grids is listed in the available documentation.

The CD-ROM also contains a Microsoft Windows program called GeoVu for displaying this data.

Documentation

There is a TerrainBase Worldwide Digital Terrain Data Documentation Manual available. Additional data about this dataset and the GeoVu software is available at the NGDC WWW server: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ngdc.html

Distribution

There is one (1) CD-ROM.