Curtis L. Olson writes:
> 
> Erik Hofman writes:
> > David Megginson wrote:
> > 
> > > Here's what it looks like with SRTM-3 and Terra:
> > > 
> > >   http://www.megginson.com/private/meech-lake-srtm3.jpg
> > 
> > The lake itself seems to fit really well in the SRTM data!
> 
> There's a small secret that relates to this.  The terragear tools
> flatten lakes and pull the edge nodes down to water "level".  So most
> of the time, lakes and streams do look like they fit there perfectly
> (even if they might not quite ... especially vmap0 data can be off by
> a noticable amount relative to the SRTM data.

Which means since we are getting a better 'fit' a misplaced lake
is very likely to look more misplaced with the new scheme :-)

Cheers

Norman



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