Digital Geography

short announce: Reverb @NASA the new WIST

Sorry to talk about this important tool with a little delay. As I was lecturing at the university I was using the Warehouse Inventory Search Tool (WIST) by NASA to collect my raster data and download them. It was a great tool but looked a little old. The biggest difference to services like landcover.org or the SRTM Tile Grabber is, that most data was ordered and delivered by FTP. It was not a big deal as most data was available for free but I think for a lot of users this was not “convenient” enough… Nevertheless Reverb- the new WIST-…

Innovative SRTM Download

It’s been a couple weeks since I’ve posted here, but I just found something I wanted to pass along. If you work with geospatial data, you are probably familiar with the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) that collected elevation data over much of Earth. These data are available from a number of interfaces on the Web, but this is one of the nicest, and most innovative, ones I’ve found. SRTM Tile Grabber Just find the spot on Earth you are interested in and you can download the SRTM data for that area as a geotiff. I think this is probably…