Friday, November 02, 2007

Source of the Amazon River

In 2000, NASA’s Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) gathered elevation data over Earth’s land surfaces. Scientists are using SRTM data (related feature story) to develop HydroSHEDS, a digital map of water channels.

1 comment:

cybrbeast said...

That's one big catchment area, no wonder the Amazon is so massive.