Nasa World Map High Resolution

The earth observatory is part of the eos project science office at The refined production algorithm provides improved spatial resolution, increased horizontal and vertical accuracy. This page is from a time before amazing services such as google maps became available.

Get the latest updates on nasa missions, watch nasa tv live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. The full resolution is 43200x21600 pixels (this is equivalent to roughly 1 square km per pixel. Eosdis makes the agency's large repository of data accessible and freely available to the public.

With over half of the world’s population living in urban areas today, the mapping and monitoring of urbanization is critical to understanding these changes and their potential impacts.

The map is centered at 0h right ascension, and r.a. Night light maps open up new applications. The srtm project has recently released a new global data set called srtm30, where the original one arcsecond of latitude and longitude resolution (about 30 meters, or 98 feet, at the equator) was reduced to 30 arcseconds (about 928 meters, or. The smallest features that can be discerned are 2.5 kilometers in size.