SRTM C-BAND DATA PRODUCTS |
- If you're interested in images and visualizations created from SRTM data, go to the
Image Product Description page.
- If you want to download SRTM data, those data are available at the
US Geological Survey's EROS Data Center
for download via File Transfer Protocol (ftp). Users should be aware that these
data are intended for use with a Geographic Information System (GIS) or other
special application software, and are not directly viewable in a browser. Also,
users should be aware that the digital topographic data and images are unedited
and are intended for scientific use and evaluation. They are outputs directly from
the SRTM interferometric radar processor and, for example, may contain numerous voids
(areas without data), water bodies that may not appear flat, and coastlines
that may be ill-defined. The data are available from the USGS server at
ftp://e0srp01u.ecs.nasa.gov.
Data are also available through the USGS seamless server at
http://seamless.usgs.gov/
Please be aware, on Wednesdays, the FTP site is unavailable
to the public due to scheduled maintenance. Also, the site has been very busy and
may appear to be unavailable if too many users are downloading data. Please limit
your download sessions so that others can access the data.
- Recently, an updated version of the USGS GTOPO30 has also been released, with SRTM data
used in place of the original data, when possible. This data set is also available on
the ftp server and is found in the directory called SRTM30. Be sure to read the ReadMe
and other text files; they contain important documentation.
- Several new web sites have posted SRTM data in different formats
than available at the USGS ftp site or the Seamless Server. Users may
want to check the Global Land Cover Facility
(http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/data/srtm/index.shtml) or the CGIAR
Consortium for Spatial Information (http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/) for
SRTM data.
- NASA has released version 2 of the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
digital topographic data (also known as the "finished" version).
Version 2 is the result of a substantial editing effort by the
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and exhibits well-defined
water bodies and coastlines and the absence of spikes and wells
(single pixel errors), although some areas of missing data ('voids')
are still present. The Version 2 directory also contains the vector
coastline mask derived by NGA during the editing, called the SRTM
Water Body Data (SWBD), in ESRI Shapefile format.
The data may be obtained by anonymous ftp to: ftp://e0srp01u.ecs.nasa.gov
and moving to the directory srtm where both version 1 and version 2
directories may be found. Please read the appropriate documentation,
also found in the directories.
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