[Marble-devel] SRTM Tiles

[Torsten Rahn]

Thanks! Interesting read! :-)

On Tuesday, 13. September 2011 21:20:51 Florian Eßer wrote:
> >> * areas above a latitude of 60 Degrees north and no Antarctica (so no
> >> Finland, parts of Canada are missing and Sarah Palin can't see Russia on
> >> those tiles)
> 
> Most of Norway is missing, too...
> 
> > If there is somebody here on this list who knows a better source for
> > global elevation data please speak up!
> 
> For areas above 60°N there is the ASTER data [1][2] that covers the
> earth from +-83° N/S. In theory, it even has a better resolution than
> SRTM2, but it seems to have some issues, too:
> See [3] (German) or just take a look at [4].
> 
> > BR,
> > Torsten
> 
> BR,
> Florian
> 
> [1] http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/gdem.asp
> [2]
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Spaceborne_Thermal_Emission_and_Refle
> ction_Radiometer#ASTER_Global_Digital_Elevation_Model [3]
> http://www.ipi.uni-hannover.de/uploads/tx_tkpublikationen/2010_Jacobsen_AST
> ERGDEM_DGPF.pdf [4]
> http://scholar.google.de/scholar?q=aster+srtm+comparison
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