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Earth Data Resources

The lights of human habitation as seen from space

Satellite & Realtime Monitors Of The Earth

OSEI
Mind-Blowing Orbital Views Of Current Earth Events
Homepage for Operational Significant Event Imagery
(This is rather stunning)

NASA's Visible Earth - Satellite Imagery Project

Real Time Geophysical Monitors
(bring a sack lunch)

Space Craft Orbit Track

Major Map Systems

NOAA World Data Center-A, National Geophysical Data Center

Using their digital geomorphology database, NGDC can produce custom images, on request, for many of our databases. Please contact Dr. Peter W. Sloss (Peter.W.Sloss@noaa.gov), NOAA/NGDC Mail Code E/GC3, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO USA 80303, Phone 303-497-6119, fax 303-497-6513, for details.

NOAA's Standard Digital Elevation Maps
Good geomorphology maps for searching the places to which you may want to relocate.
Idaho   |  New Mexico

National Atlas of the United States

Bathymetry, Topography & Global Relief
from the National Geophysical Data Center; this site shows a number of different types of DEM which can be selected from the computer's graphic software.

Elevation Shaded Relief Map of North America

USGS Flood-Prone Area Maps

Other Maps

Geography    |   Streetmap

Ray Sterner  ray.sterner@jhuapl.edu

The Rocky Mountain Cordilliera of North America
(comprising the interior plateaus and mountain chains which run
approximately North to South from the Yukon to the Yucaton,
generally ranging in altitude from 4,000 to 13,000 feet)
see for example the dark brown zones on this relief map
North America Relief Map

Tectonic Plate Motion

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