Topographic Tutorial: Pentagon Area

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<p>This model is a first download of an area using the University of Iowa's TouchTerrain service here: <a href="https://touchterrain.geol.iastate.edu/">https://touchterrain.geol.iastate.edu/</a></p><p>In this model, we centered on the location of the Pentagon, a military headquarters, near Washington, DC, USA. &nbsp;Bounding box goes from upper right: (38.89101366263339 N, -77.02700035458454 E) to lower left: (38.85091899757407 N, -77.0832480657662 E). &nbsp;The underlying data has 10m resolution on the digital elevation data.</p><p>The vertical elevation scale factor was set to 5, to exaggerate the vertical distances. &nbsp;The model base was set to 0.5 mm to limit wasted base material (default is 1mm).</p><p>Other parameters were left as default on the web page for generating the STL.&nbsp;</p><p>Citation for TouchTerrain tool: <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/10/3/108#cite">https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/10/3/108#cite</a></p><p>Harding, Chris, Franek Hasiuk, and Aaron Wood. 2021. "TouchTerrain—3D Printable Terrain Models" <i>ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information</i> 10, no. 3: 108. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi10030108</p>