Collecting LIDAR data over the Ganges and Brahmaputra River Basin

  • Released Wednesday, February 27th, 2013
  • Updated Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 1:52PM
  • ID: 4047
Animation of a generic satellite taking digital elevation map measurements across the Ganges and Brahmaputra river basin. This animation was created for a NASA-funded educational movie as part of the Fulbright program. Terrain elevation is exaggerated 5 times.

Animation of a generic satellite collecting digital elevation map data over the Ganges and Brahmaputra River basin.

Print resolution picture of a satellite taking elevation measurements over Bangladesh.

Print resolution picture of a satellite taking elevation measurements over Bangladesh.

Print resolution picture of a swathe of elevation data crossing the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers.

Print resolution picture of a swathe of elevation data crossing the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers.

Annotated print resolution picture of a swathe of elevation data crossing the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers.

Annotated print resolution picture of a swathe of elevation data crossing the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers.

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Datasets used in this visualization

SRTM DEM (Collected with the SIR-C sensor)
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