Earth Explorer DEM description
Earth Explorer DEM - high resolution 3D interactive shaded relief topographic world map

Earth Explorer DEM integrates high-resolution shaded relief topographic imagery (built from 1km resolution digital elevation model) with kinds of map layers such as political boundaries, coastlines, rivers, lake and island boundaries, 267 countries and regions, 40000+ ranked cities, 15000+ islands, and 1700+ noteworthy historical earthquakes since 1980 into a fantastic 3D earth globe.

You can specify what kinds of map layers to be shown, rotate the globe, click right mouse button and pull/push to zoom in/out the current map view, measure distance between any two points on the map.

Here are some key features of "Earth Explorer DEM":

· A 3D bird's-eye view of our beautiful earth;
· Photo-realistic shaded relief topographic imagery at 1km resolution covered entire earth globe;
· Integrates with several kinds of map layers:
· Vector map layers:
· Political boundaries (International boundaries and internal boundaries);
· Coastlines, lakes, islands and rivers;
· Longitude-latitude grids;
· Point map layers:
· 267 countries/regions and detailed information;
· 40000+ ranked cities and information;
· 15000+ Islands and information;
· 1700+ noteworthy historical earthquakes since 1980 and detailed information;
· Rotate/Zoom in/Zoom out functions lets you observe our beautiful planet at any point (Click right mouse button and pull/push to zoom in/out the current map);
· Three kinds of operation modes (Drag, Center, Measure);
· Measure distance between any two points on the globe;
· Intelligent tips when your mouse moves upon a country/city/island/earthquake's mark or name label;
· Sort country/city/island/earthquake table according to selected titles and interactive operate with the label and mark on the map;
· Save favorite maps with BMP, JPEG formats.


Limitations:

· 30 days trial.


What's New in This Release:

· Improved location map display;
· Add user-define location map to Earth Explorer
· Windows XP look and feel is used for Windows XP;
· The maximum resolution of the trial version is set to 5km per-pixel;
· Some minor bugs fixed.