Thursday, April 10, 2014

Digital Raster Graphics


DRG or digital raster graphics are raster images of standard quadrangle format USGS topographic maps. “A DRG is a raster image of a scanned U.S. Geological Survey topographic or planimetric map including the collar information georeferenced to the UTM grid.” The image below is a scanned USGS topographic map and is a useful backdrop for data to be interpreted.

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