DOD terrain database soon available to civil aviation

The Defense Dept. will release a version of its Global Digital Terrain Elevation database for use in civil aviation as part an effort to address the problem of controlled flight into terrain (CFIT), Vice President Gore announced yesterday. In a speech to the International Conference on Aviation...

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