Earth's Elevation Data for Free

[Diego Araujo]

Hi, Guys!

For those interested in 3D mapping of landscape terrains, or even those interested in using elevation data to create their 2D maps, here is some good news.

World Elevation Data is now available for free in JAXA website:

http://global.jaxa.jp/press/2015/05/...18_daichi.html

Regards,
Diego

[johnvanvliet]

but this news report points to
http://alos-world3d.jp/en/index.html

the data here is not free for EVERYONE

Price

Starting from 50,400 yen per file (in addition to the cost of the 3D map).

price list
-- PDF---
http://alos-world3d.jp/en/public/AW3Dprice_en.pdf


but one can register for a free account
http://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/ALOS/en/aw3d30/index.htm
see section 3 and 4 ( 4 is the TERMS OF USE !!! )




As normal the USA /USGS
"Global Multi-resolution Terrain Elevation Data 2010 (GMTED2010)"
is under the REQUIRED free license ( the usa can NOT copyright it )
http://topotools.cr.usgs.gov/gmted_viewer/
the data is in ArcGis format and NO registering required

or
a 15 and 30 arc sec combined map from the ArcGis files in a resized raw image
a 65536x32768 16 bit LSB raw image each tone equals 0.5 meters in height
( 90 north to 90 south -180 west to +180 east )
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6Z...ew?usp=sharing
for reference see :
http://forum.celestialmatters.org/vi...9&t=616#p11771


or

a different set
"Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM )Topography"
http://dds.cr.usgs.gov/srtm/version2_1/

-- pdf about the SRTM 30 data
http://dds.cr.usgs.gov/srtm/version2...umentation.pdf

the news release on the strm2 data
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/

or the BlueMarble STRM1 data
http://mirrors.arsc.edu/nasa/topography/
"srtm_ramp2.world.86400x43200.bin.gz"