Asia: Terrain & Seafloor 36 x 48
Map elements include:
A digital elevation model of all continental terrain within the map frame. Individual publicly available tiles of terrain data were sequentially downloaded from the U.S. Geological Survey in TIFF format. Each individual tile was then stitched into a continental mosaic, then “clipped” to highly detailed coastlines. All geoprocessing was performed using ESRI’s ArcGIS Pro software.
A digital bathymetric model of the surrounding seafloor. Raw, publicly available bathymetric TIFF imagery tiles were obtained from the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) via the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and combined into a mosaic that fills the map frame. All seafloor geoprocessing was performed using ESRI’s ArcGIS Pro software.
A detailed depiction of:
Inland water bodies, including intermittent lakes and dry salt flats
Mountain summits with corresponding elevations in feet
Volcanic mountain summits with corresponding elevations in feet
Mountain ranges, plateaus, valleys, and other significant landforms
Glaciers, courtesy of the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) program
Islands, points, capes, and other coastal features
Deserts
National, state, and territorial capitals and significant cities scaled by population
International and subnational political boundaries
Seafloor ridges, seamount chains, basins, fracture zones, and other significant features
Pinpoint locations of significant seamounts, guyots, banks, shoals, reefs, and other submerged features
Asia: Terrain & Seafloor was Ridgeline's sixth map completed in the Continental Terrain & Seafloor Series. As the map encompasses more than a quarter of the earth's surface, Asia: Terrain & Seafloor also captures much of Eastern Europe, North and East Africa, the majority of the Indian Ocean, northern Australia, and a wide swath of the Western Pacific. Major highlights include the northwestern boundary of the Pacific Ring of Fire, the complex bathymetry of the Philippine Sea, the tangled network of mountain ranges extending from Eastern Europe to Indochina, and the topographic complexities of Indonesia, the Philippines, and Japan.
