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World Elevation

Globe Service Name: ESRI_Elevation_World

Description: This globe presents elevation data at approximately 90m or 1km per pixel resolution for the world. The elevation data includes 90m Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) elevation data from NASA and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) where it is available and 1km GTOPO30 data from the USGS elsewhere. Vertical units are measured in meters.

Attribution: Source: NASA, NGA, USGS

Coordinate System: Geographic (Latitude-Longitude) 

Units of Measure: Decimal degrees

Extent in Decimal Degrees:
     Maximum Longitude: 180
     Maximum Latitude: 90
     Minimum Longitude: -180
     Minimum Latitude: -90

Globe Service Data Format: Globe Server Cache 

Globe Service Size: 25.1 GB

Globe Service Size on Disk: 31.1 GB

Globe Service Number of Files: 1,926,664