HiRISE DEM's Options

[djellison]

Late last week I stumbled upon a few HiRISE derived DEM's (Randy Kirk works his magic once again!)

http://webgis.wr.usgs.gov/ftphirise/index.jsp (URL now down)

I'm working on both Vic Crater and the Columbia Hills. Fortunately, now I've got a Mac, I can use ISIS. I've figured out a fairly simple flow ( isis2raw as 16 bit unsigned, and then imported into Photoshop ) to take DEM CUB's and make 16 bit PNG's

Just to demo how important that is for me as an animator - sliced comparisons of 8bit vs 16 bit.

A busy week unfortunately, but animations of various sorts are in the pipeline.

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[helvick]

Seems like the video's are still entrancing new fans, just noticed Gizmodo picked it up via Twitter from Roger Ebert.

Edited - I just noticed Emily's comment on the Discovery article regarding the attribution of the video and corrected my own mis-attribution. Hangs head in shame.