An instrument aboard the Terra satellite has generated the most complete digital topographic ... Himalayan mountains in Bhutan. (Image: ASTER GDEM/METI/NASA) To create the new map, the ASTER ...

archaeologists were able to create a rough topographical map of two mountain-bound cities in Uzbekistan, named Tashbulak and ...

Yet topographic analyses of the region indicate active deformation, suggesting a way of refining maps of earthquake risk ... shortening across the mountain range. In such settings, where ...

these waves are amplified by the shape of the hills and mountains, a phenomenon called "topographical amplification." This effect makes certain areas particularly vulnerable to landslides.