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Shuttle Radar Topography Mission - New Products in 2005

Fact Sheet 2005-3068
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https://doi.org/10.3133/fs20053068

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In February 2000, the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) successfully collected Interferometric C-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar data over 80 percent of the Earth's land surface, for most of the area between 60?N and 56?S latitude. NASA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), formerly known as the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), co-sponsored the mission. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) performed preliminary processing of SRTM data and forwarded partially finished data directly to NGA for finishing by NGA contractors and subsequent monthly deliveries to the NGA Digital Products Data Warehouse (DPDW). All data products delivered by the contractors conform to NGA SRTM Data Products and NGA Digital Terrain Elevation Data? (DTED?) specifications. The DPDW ingests the SRTM data products, checks them for formatting errors, loads the public SRTM DTED? into the NGA data distribution system, and ships them to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS). In addition to NGA's SRTM DTED? format, USGS EROS has reformatted the data into a non-proprietary, generic raster binary SRTM format that is readable by most remote sensing software packages. The SRTM format is also publicly available from USGS EROS.
Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Shuttle Radar Topography Mission - New Products in 2005
Series title Fact Sheet
Series number 2005-3068
DOI 10.3133/fs20053068
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Year Published 2007
Language ENGLISH
Publisher Geological Survey (U.S.)
Contributing office(s) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
Description 2 p.
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