Where is the mountains?

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Im at Longyearbyen,Norway . There must be mountains around 🧐 But …

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I think that if the airport is farther north than 60°, the scenery is flat. (Correct me if I am wrong)

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This is right! I’ll link a topic in a second :)

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Here you go:

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Thanks Seb :)

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Beat me to it 😆

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Thanks ! 😬

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Any plans on having to fix that in the future?

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When there’s data we can use, of course. We do check if there is from time to time.

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Bro i think it’s because its latitude is too high

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Did the team had a look at JAXA’s DEM data from their ALOS satellite?

It was apparently on an 98 degree retrograde orbit. Their 30m dataset is available for free for commercial use (with conditions) and there is also an option to get 2.5m - 5m resolution DEM data.

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Due to terrain issues mountains are not visible north of 60 degrees Most of Alaska Europe and Russia have no mountains

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Maybe in the future we’ll get worldwide geographic data

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Two comments:

1)It is very cool that this limitation on the terrain mapping latitude is the direct consequence of the laws of orbital mechanics: “Shuttle orbit of 233 km at 57° inclination was the highest possible for a fully loaded Shuttle. Maximizing the altitude also maximizes the antenna footprint on the ground, contributing to achieving full circumferential coverage in 10 days of mapping”
2)You lucked out because Stockholm is at latitude 59.332787° N?

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