What is SRTM . DEMS and DTED
Mark N1UK
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> Well.. I have a set of pre-SRTM CDs with DEMS on 3arcsecond increments
> (about 90 meters) in 1x1 degree squares. SRTM is about 3 times better
> than that if you get the DTED2 files.
>
> It's pretty easy to plug in a lat/lon and then interpolate into all the
> squares to generate the profiles. I've actually got a C-language
> command line program that does that (and one in VB4.5 as well.. yes,
> I've had that data around for a while.. )
>
> The hard part (for me) is integrating it with some sort of webserver.
> There's a bunch of ways of doing it. And one could probably dynamically
> retrieve the SRTM data using cURL or similar.
>
> It seems like it would be something that Google Earth can do, but I
> haven't fooled with GE enough to know.
>
> RadioMobile might be another tool (it can definitely grab the SRTM data
> automatically), but like everything else, it has a fairly big "first
> step" on the learning curve.
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