[wellylug] JPL OnEarth GeoTIFF Global Landsat7 Mosaic

[Centurion Computer Technology Ltd]

On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 11:10 -0800, Brent Wood wrote:
> 
> --- Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jedolinux.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 20:07 +1300, Brent Wood wrote:
> > > Anyone playing with the LINZ vector data might also be interested in this. 
> > > 
> > > High res global satellite imagery just released from JPL. Total dataset
> > only 1.3Tb :-)
> > 
> > 
> > Come on Brent, we all know that this GIS stuff you do is simply an
> > excuse to give your wife, so that she allows you to buy big expensive
> > hard drives to build an array. ;-))
> 
> That's only 3x 500Gb drives. Plus some sort of backup. Trivial :-) 
> 
> 10Gb/month datacap = 130 months or about 11 years, without any iso's or other
> data. Sigh.... I might see about the NZ region though. Couldn't be much more
> than a few Gb.

You could always get them to post it to you on:
3 500GB harddisks,
163 Dual layer DVD's (@ ~8Gb/dvd)
289 4.5 GB DVD's
1858 700Mb CD's
or even 902,778 1.44Mb floppy disks (maybe a 20ft container would be
required for this).


	 
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> Spotcha....
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