Hi, I was just reading, and I couldn't help notice
where you live. I would really like to visit there sometime.
Would it be too much to ask if you could send
me a new postcard of Australia, thanks
: >Dear GRASS Users,
: >
: >Can anyone point me to an ftp site for an Australian dem?
: >(Preferably in lat/lon at 5 arc minutes)
: >
: >I already have ETOPO5, but there are stripes of missing data
: >in N Australia and S. New Guinea.
: >
: There is a better one available from AGSO, based on gridding up the gravity
: stations. Last week I visited AGSO (the geological survey) and had a
: meeting with
: the person who is producing the new DEM - it is based on the gravity
: stations suplemented by all the spot heights from the national mapping, and
: gridded using Hutchinson's algorithm - it will be at about ? 3 arc-seconds
: resolution (from memory). However, the agencies involved (AGSO and AUSLIG)
: have a cost recovery requirement imposed by the federal government, so when
: this becomes available it will cost real $$. Not their choice, so no flames.
: You guys in the US probably don't realise how lucky you are with the US
: policy of cost-of-reproduction. I am involved in several cooperative
: projects with the peopls who are custodians of various datasets, and even I
: have to sign contracts, non-transfer/disclosure agreements, etc, and they
: get a $ credit for any data that I use.
: SO, for the moment, etopo5 is about all that is available.
: Regards Simon Cox
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: CSIRO Div. Exploration & Mining ,~' L_|\ Australian
: 39 Fairway, PO Box 437, ;-' \ Geodynamics
: Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia ( \ Cooperative
: Phone +61 9 389 8421 + ___ / Research
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