How did the development of SRTM relate to Mission to Planet Earth and the long-term plans of NASA for environmental monitoring missions?
The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission provides important information for NASA’s Earth Sciences Enterprise, which is dedicated to understanding the total Earth system and the effects of human activity on the global environment. Data will give scientists a better understanding of natural systems and a more reliable method for predicting changes in Earth’s atmosphere, land and sea that are being brought on by natural events and human-induced activities. Topographic data are critical to the accuracy of these computer models and global changes in climate, land formations, sea-surface heights and atmospheric changes. That is because Earth’s shape determines the flow of air, water and ice, and the spatial pattern of all life, including people. Topographic data also give scientists clues about the underlying structures of Earth, including its tectonic activity. The data have a variety of uses in scientific disciplines ranging from hydrology, geology and archaeology to ecology and studies of urb
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