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NASA SRTM 30 m (Global)

Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). 30 meter digital elevation model.

The void-filled SRTM Global 1 arc-second product (SRTMGL1 v3), flown on the Space Shuttle Endeavour in February 2000. It remains the most widely used near-global DEM for watershed delineation, stream network extraction and hydrological model setup. Tiles are 1° × 1° and named by their south-west corner.

Source
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Geological Survey
Resolution
30 m (1 arc-second)
Data type
Raster
Time span
2000
Temporal
Static (11 to 22 February 2000)
Access type
Download with free login · Free NASA Earthdata login for file downloads
Formats
HGT (zipped), GeoTIFF through OpenTopography
Coverage
56°S – 60°N (-180, -56, 180, 60)
Licence
Public domain (U.S. Government work)
DOI
10.5067/MEaSUREs/SRTM/SRTMGL1.003
Provider page
lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/srtmgl1v003/

Cite as. NASA JPL (2013). NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Global 1 arc second. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. https://doi.org/10.5067/MEaSUREs/SRTM/SRTMGL1.003

Access

cmrSRTMGL1 v003 tiles from NASA Earthdata (login required)

Granules found through NASA's Common Metadata Repository (collection SRTMGL1 v003). Downloads need a free Earthdata login.

apiClipped GeoTIFF from the OpenTopography Global DEM API (free API key)

https://portal.opentopography.org/API/globaldem?demtype=SRTMGL1&south={south}&north={north}&west={west}&east={east}&outputFormat=GTiff&API_Key=YOUR_KEY

# Earthdata login in ~/.netrc:
# machine urs.earthdata.nasa.gov login USER password PASS
curl -fsSL "https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/nasa-srtm-30m/links.txt?bbox=-75,-20,-50,5" \
  | xargs -n 1 curl -fLO --netrc -b ~/.urs_cookies -c ~/.urs_cookies

Also available as JSON: links · manifest · dataset record