[Gdal-dev] how to read SRTM files

[Ben Discoe]

Eduardo,

Or, simply drag your .hgt files into some nice GDAL-based software such as
VTP's VTBuilder, which will automatically recognize the .hgt and load it
directly.

-Ben
http://vterrain.org/

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> From: Ethan Alpert
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 3:55 PM
> 
> Looks like you're grabbing the "unfinished" data. 
> [..]
> You're going to need to do some processing before you can use 
> these files.
> 
> -e
> 
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> From: Eduardo Patto Kanegae
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 11:42 AM
> To: freegis-list at intevation.de; gdal-dev at remotesensing.org
> Subject: [Gdal-dev] how to read SRTM files
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm downloading SRTM NASA ziped files from 
> ftp://e0dps01u.ecs.nasa.gov/srtm/South_America/ but I saw 
> that I don't know this file format(.hgt)