Announcement: Realease of worldwide high-resultion SRTM-data (30m)
Summary:
The White House announced on September 23th during the United Nations Heads of State Climate Summit in New York that they are going to release the high-resolution images of SRTM globally. Until now, the high-resolution imagery were only available for US-areas. All other countries had lower resolution imagery. Due to this release the 30m x 30m imagery will be available globally and substitute the 90m x 90m data. After its release the data will be accessible on EarthExplorer by the US Geological Service (USGS). Unfortunately they didn’t announce an exact release date (only “will be released globally over the next year”). That…
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Geographic context:
Location | Country | Latitude | Longitude |
New York | US | 40.7146 | -74.0071 |
United States | US | 37.1679 | -95.845 |
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