Last October, Kim began studying how flood risks work on the Davis Islands, located south of Downtown Tampa, with the help of ...

The US Geological Survey (USGS) has a program called the 3D Elevation Program (3DEP). From the USGS website: The 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) initiative is being developed to respond to growing needs ...

We mentioned in our post on simulating lakes that Google Earth’s elevation data is often very inaccurate in mountainous areas. When looking around the 3D imagery of Rio de Janeiro, where the Olympics ...

Louisiana officials announced today that they will let applicants for a federal home-elevation grant program collect as much as $100,000 for raising their houses above base flood levels, rather than ...