Digital shaded-relief map of Venezuela
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Abstract
The digital shaded relief map of Venezuela is a composite of 3-arc-second (approximately 90-meter) elevation data, captured during the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) in February 2000. The SRTM, a joint project between the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), provides the most comprehensive international digital elevation dataset ever produced. The 11-day flight mission aboard the U.S. Space Shuttle Endeavour obtained elevation data for about 80% of the world's landmass through the use of single-pass Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) technology.
This publication includes a colorized relief image of Venezuela (GeoTIFF format) and the elevation data (ESRI Grid format) used for rendering the image. These datasets are intended to accompany U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005–1038 (http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1038/) and U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 199 (http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/2006/199/). SRTM data in version 2.0 have been processed using the latest data-void filling algorithms and represent a significant improvement to the data used in version 1.0.
| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | Digital shaded-relief map of Venezuela |
| Series title | Open-File Report |
| Series number | 2004-1322 |
| DOI | 10.3133/ofr20041322 |
| Edition | Version 2.0, 2009 |
| Year Published | 2004 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Contributing office(s) | Eastern Energy Resources Science Center |
| Description | 1 map; elevation data; metadata (7 p.) |
| Country | Venezuela |
| Online Only (Y/N) | N |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | Y |