Another SRTM Source
Published Thursday, March 02, 2006 by CCAer | E-mail this post

The 90 m digital elevation models of the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission are generally available from the
USGS’s Seamless Data Distribution page where users can specifiy an area on a map, then download the data.
CGIAR Consortium for Spatial Information also provides SRTM data but
in 5 degree tiles as geotiffs or ArcInfo ASCII files. No data holes have been filled through interpolation (as opposed to
Viewfinder Panorama’s apporach of filling in missing data from other sources).
CGIAR-CSI’s focus is on “the application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) for sustainable agricultural development.” No word on what CGIAR stands for.
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
http://www.cgiar.org/