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NASADEM

NASADEM Merged DEM Global 1 arc second. Reprocessed SRTM with ASTER and ICESat corrections.

A reprocessing of the original SRTM radar data with improved phase unwrapping and ICESat control, with voids filled mainly from ASTER GDEM. It supersedes SRTMGL1 for most uses inside the SRTM footprint.

Source
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Resolution
30 m (1 arc-second)
Data type
Raster
Time span
2000
Temporal
Static
Access type
Download with free login · Free NASA Earthdata login
Formats
HGT (zipped), NetCDF
Coverage
56°S – 60°N (-180, -56, 180, 60)
Licence
Public domain (U.S. Government work)
DOI
10.5067/MEaSUREs/NASADEM/NASADEM_HGT.001
Provider page
lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/nasadem_hgtv001/

Cite as. NASA JPL (2020). NASADEM Merged DEM Global 1 arc second V001. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. https://doi.org/10.5067/MEaSUREs/NASADEM/NASADEM_HGT.001

Access

cmrNASADEM_HGT v001 tiles from NASA Earthdata

Granules found through NASA's Common Metadata Repository (collection NASADEM_HGT v001). Downloads need a free Earthdata login.

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

https://portal.opentopography.org/API/globaldem?demtype=NASADEM&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/nasadem/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