dem for Australia

[George Taylor]

Simon,

There is indeed a newer 5' global coverage available from NGDC.  The
contact is Lee Row.  His phone is 303-4976764, and his email is
lwr at mail.ngdc.noaa.gov.  I believe he may still be on vacation.

Wayne Gibson
Oregon State University


> >Since my original post, I found another 5' worldwide dem with bathymetry.
> >It is produced by the National Geophysical Data Center in Boulder,
> >CO, USA.  The name of the model is "TerrainBase" and is a compilation of
> >many models.  The Australian portion is from the Hutchinson model.
> >This dem fixes many of the errors in ETOPO5.
> 

> George
> 

> Can you now give me more info on TerrainBase?  I have the ngdc "Global
> Relief" CDRom with etopo5 and I thought that was about the best available
> at a close to zero cost.  If ngdc have now released an improvement I would
> like to acquire it.
> 

> Cheers
> 

> Simon Cox
>