The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) thinks that today's computer maps of the Earth are inaccurate for its needs. So it recently awarded a grant to a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ...

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have some exciting ideas about the future of digital mapping for space exploration. They completed a paper titled ...

Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

Lockheed Martin’s Hydra Fusion Tools drone software now enables drones to form three dimensional terrain maps as they fly, providing real-time tactical information and mapping data for conflict or ...

Google Maps continues to crank out the updates; the default map view has been updated with new shading detail to convey terrain information, along with color gradations to depict vegetation and labels ...

No audio available for this content. Google Maps now has Terrain View, which enables users to see terrain maps for an area. Terrain view shows the 3D elevation of natural geographic features, such as ...

Today we're having a peek at the newly revealed and newly-public "most accurate" high resolution terrain map of Antarctica. This is REMA, or the Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica. Straight from ...