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Note: The data set was downloaded from the web site in 2000.
Note: The data set was downloaded from the web site in 2000.
1. GLOBE Project (Global Land One-km Base Elevation); downloaded the data from <http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/topo/gltiles.shtml>; <http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/topo/globedoc.shtml> (Documentation Home Page); 30 arc second gridding (926 meters) - provided land relief information for the world.
2. University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Marine_Topo; topo_7.2.img; downloaded the data from <http://topex.ucsd.edu/marine_topo/mar_topo.html>; 2 arc minute gridding (3704 meters) - provided bathymetry data between 72 degrees north and 72 degrees south.
3. ETOPO5; downloaded the data from <http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/global.html>; <http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/etopo5.html> (documentation); 5 arc minute gridding (9260 meters) - provided sea floor data from 72 degrees latitude poleward.
4. DCW (Digital Chart of the World); extracted the data from CD-ROM - major lakes extracted from DNNET (vector drainage layer) rasterized to 1 km resolution.
The following steps were performed by ESRI:
Downloaded and extracted the data from the sources listed above.
Resampled to 30 arc seconds of latitude (926 meters), data based on three global digital elevation models (DEM) of different resolutions covering the entire world. Prepared a customized color ramp to generate the original TIFF image, size 3.7 GB. Ran the Hillshade function (illumination from azimuth of 315 degrees, from the northwest) to see the data in 2.5 D (appears to be in three dimensions). Overlaid major permanent lakes of the world derived from DCW on the final DEM; dried out depressions (areas below sea level) not filled with water to properly represent the areas, e.g. Death Valley. Converted to MrSID format for its compression abilities to reduce file sizes.
Resampled to 1 kilometer, ETOPO5 and UCSD Marine_Topo DEMs with resolution coarser than 1 kilometer. Merged together these two DEMs and GLOBE DEM for land in a way such that the one with the finest original resolution would remain on top deriving the most information from the data. Ran the Hillshade function (illumination from north-west, azimuth 315 degrees) derived for the mosaicked global DEM.
Created a customized color ramp with 999 color symbols and applied to the entire elevation model. Special effort made to ensure sea-land border accuracy. HSV (hue saturation value) model of the data created with the color-ramped DEM assigned to serve as HUE and SATURATION while the hillshade information layer was applied as VALUE.
Converted HSV into RGB (red green blue). Overlaid the rasterized outlines of the major lakes reselected from DCW vector data on each of the RGB grids. Performed additional processing not to show world depressions (areas below sea level) as water. Saved as TIFF image - the total size 2.74 GB. All of the above processing was performed in ESRI's GRID.
Compressed by MrSID to 85 MB.
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