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ASTER GDEM

ASTER GDEM is an easy-to-use, highly accurate DEM covering all the land on earth, and available to all users regardless of size or location of their target areas.
Anyone can easily use the ASTER GDEM to display a bird's-eye-view map or run a flight simulation, and this should realize visually sophisticated maps. By utilizing the ASTER GDEM as a platform, institutions specialized in disaster monitoring, hydrology, energy, environmental monitoring etc. can perform more advanced analysis. (See another page,"Application")

For example, in "GEOSS Project(**)", DEM is considered to be an important platform and thus ASTER GDEM is expected to make significant contribution.
*Kashmir3D
Kashmir3D is a multi-functional free software for making realistic bird's-eye views, landscape CG, flight simulation movies and panorama mountain views. It supports almost all the publicly available map/topographic data (sold or free) as well as ASTER GDEM.

**GEOSS
GEOSS is an ambitious international project involving approximately 60 nations including the G8 member states (Japan included) and approximately 30 international organizations, aiming to establish within 10 years a comprehensive global-scale system that coordinates various existing and future observation facilities such as satellites and ground stations. This project is anticipated to provide valuable information for policy makers.
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