r3d100012066 Shuttle Radar Topography Mission SRTM https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/index.html The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, which flew aboard NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour during an 11-day mission in 2000, made the first near-global topographical map of Earth, collecting data on nearly 80 percent of Earth's land surfaces. The instrument's design was essentially a modified version of the earlier Shuttle Imaging Radar instruments with a second antenna added to allow for topographic mapping using a technique similar to stereo photography. michael.kobrick@jpl.nasa.gov disciplinary 9 terabytes of raw data 2000 eng 3 Natural Sciences 315 Geophysics and Geodesy 31502 Geodesy, Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, Geoinformatics, Cartogaphy 34 Geosciences (including Geography) https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/mission.htm Images Plain text Raw data dataProvider GIS geographic information systems digital elevation models images interferometric synthetic aperture radar remote sensing topography Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt DLR German Aerospace Center DEU general non-profit https://www.dlr.de/DE/Home/home_node.html ROR:04bwf3e34 https://www.dlr.de/eoc/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-5515/9214_read-17716/ Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL USA general non-profit https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ ROR:027k65916 alan.buis@jpl.nasa.gov http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-321 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA USA funding non-profit https://www.nasa.gov/ ROR:027ka1x80 http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-99.html stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency NGA USA funding non-profit https://www.nga.mil/Pages/Default.aspx ROR:02k4pxv54 https://www.nga.mil/About/Pages/Contact.aspx US Geological Survey, Earth Resources Observation and Science USGS, EROS USA technical non-profit http://eros.usgs.gov/ custserv@usgs.gov United States Geological Survey U.S. Geological Survey USGS USA funding non-profit https://www.usgs.gov/ ROR:035a68863 Policies and Important Notices https://www.usgs.gov/policies-notices open open Public Domain https://technology.nasa.gov/publicdomain other https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/imagepolicy/ closed unknown https://dds.cr.usgs.gov/srtm/version2_1/SRTM30/ https://www.usgs.gov/core-science-systems/ngp/tnm-delivery/ none https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eros unknown yes FGDC/CSDGM - Federal Geographic Data Committee Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/metadata-standards/fgdccsdgm-federal-geographic-data-committee-content-standard-digital-ge The SRTM radar contained two types of antenna panels, C-band and X-band. The near-global topographic maps of Earth called Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) are made from the C-band radar data. These data were processed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and are being distributed through the United States Geological Survey's EROS Data Center (http://eros.usgs.gov/). Data from the X-band radar are used to create slightly higher resolution DEMs but without the global coverage of the C-band radar. The SRTM X-band radar data are being processed and distributed by the German Aerospace Center, DLR (http://www.dlr.de/eoc/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-5515/9214_read-17716/). Several new web sites have posted SRTM data in different formats than available at the USGS 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. 2016-07-19 2021-08-25