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Friday, September 2nd, 2016

NGA, NSF Release 3-D Elevation Models of Alaska for White House Arctic initiative

Springfield, Va. — The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the National Science Foundation publicly released new 3-D topographic maps of Alaska Sept. 1 in support of a White House Arctic initiative to inform better decision-making in the Arctic. The 3-D digital elevation models, or DEMs, are the first to come from the ArcticDEM project, which was created after a