Repository details

Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

Name of repository
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
Additional name(s)
  • SRTM
Repository URL
https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/sensors/srtm
Subject(s)
Description
The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, which flew aboard NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour during an 11-day mission in 2000, made the first near-global topographical map of Earth, collecting data on nearly 80 percent of Earth's land surfaces. The instrument's design was essentially a modified version of the earlier Shuttle Imaging Radar instruments with a second antenna added to allow for topographic mapping using a technique similar to stereo photography.
Contact
Content type(s)
Keyword(s)
Repository size
9 terabytes of raw data
Repository type(s)
  • disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/mission.htm
Research data repository language(s)
  • English
Data and/or service provider
  • data provider
Institution name
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt
Additional name(s)
  • DLR
  • German Aerospace Center
Identifier(s)
  • ROR:04bwf3e34
Contact(s)
Country
Germany
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Additional name(s)
  • JPL
Identifier(s)
  • ROR:027k65916
Contact(s)
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Additional name(s)
  • NASA
Identifier(s)
  • ROR:027ka1x80
Contact(s)
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Additional name(s)
  • NGA
Identifier(s)
  • ROR:02k4pxv54
Contact(s)
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
US Geological Survey, Earth Resources Observation and Science
Additional name(s)
  • USGS, EROS
Contact(s)
  • custserv@usgs.gov
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
United States Geological Survey
Additional name(s)
  • USGS
  • U.S. Geological Survey
Identifier(s)
  • ROR:035a68863
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit

Policies (1)

Policy Name
Policies and Important Notices

Database access

Type of access to research data repository
open

Data access (1)

Type of access to data
open

Data licenses (2)

DataLicense
other
DataLicense
Public Domain

Data upload (1)

Type of data upload
closed
Persistent identifier system(s)
  • none
Name of the repository software
  • unknown
Data citation guideline
https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eros
Enhanced Publication
unknown
Quality management
yes

Application programming interfaces (2)

API type
FTP
API type
FTP

Metadata standards (1)

Metadata standard name
FGDC/CSDGM - Federal Geographic Data Committee Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata standard scheme
DCC

Remarks

Remarks
The SRTM radar contained two types of antenna panels, C-band and X-band. The near-global topographic maps of Earth called Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) are made from the C-band radar data. These data were processed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and are being distributed through the United States Geological Survey's EROS Data Center (http://eros.usgs.gov/). Data from the X-band radar are used to create slightly higher resolution DEMs but without the global coverage of the C-band radar. The SRTM X-band radar data are being processed and distributed by the German Aerospace Center, DLR (http://www.dlr.de/eoc/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-5515/9214_read-17716/). Several new web sites have posted SRTM data in different formats than available at the USGS site or the Seamless Server. Users may want to check the Global Land Cover Facility (http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/data/srtm/index.shtml) or the CGIAR Consortium for Spatial Information (http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/) for SRTM data.
Entry date
2016-07-19
Last update
2024-04-16
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re3data.org: Shuttle Radar Topography Mission; editing status 2024-04-16; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. http://doi.org/10.17616/R3W064 last accessed: 2024-04-20