dem for Australia

[Phu Luong]

Hi, I was just reading, and I couldn't help notice

where you live.  I would really like to visit there sometime.

Would it be too much to ask if you could send

me a new postcard of Australia, thanks


: >Dear GRASS Users,
: >
: >Can anyone point me to an ftp site for an Australian dem?
: >(Preferably in lat/lon at 5 arc minutes)
: >
: >I already have ETOPO5, but there are stripes of missing data
: >in N Australia and S. New Guinea.
: >

: There is a better one available from AGSO, based on gridding up the gravity
: stations.  Last week I visited AGSO (the geological survey) and had a
: meeting with
: the person who is producing the new DEM - it is based on the gravity
: stations suplemented by all the spot heights from the national mapping, and
: gridded using Hutchinson's algorithm - it will be at about ? 3 arc-seconds
: resolution (from memory).  However, the agencies involved (AGSO and AUSLIG)
: have a cost recovery requirement imposed by the federal government, so when
: this becomes available it will cost real $$.  Not their choice, so no flames.

:  You guys in the US probably don't realise how lucky you are with the US
: policy of cost-of-reproduction.  I am involved in several cooperative
: projects with the peopls who are custodians of various datasets, and even I
: have to sign contracts, non-transfer/disclosure agreements, etc, and they
: get a $ credit for any data that I use.

: SO, for the moment, etopo5 is about all that is available.

: Regards         Simon Cox

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: Dr Simon Cox                             __  L
: CSIRO Div. Exploration & Mining       ,~'  L_|\       Australian
: 39 Fairway, PO Box 437,            ;-'         \      Geodynamics
: Nedlands, WA  6009,  Australia     (            \     Cooperative
:       Phone +61 9 389 8421         +    ___     /     Research
:       Fax   +61 9 389 1906          L~~'   "\__/      Centre
: s.cox at dem.csiro.au                            7
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