Downloading SRTM data

SRTM data can be downloaded from the EarthExplorer website, where we downloaded Landsat imagery last week.

• 1) Navigate to EarthExplorer on your browser and make sure you are logged in.
• 2) Select your area of interest.

_{If you need a reminder on how to do these steps, have a look at the Landsat instructions in Week 3.}

• 3) Click the Data Sets » button.

_{Select your area of interest.}

• 4) Expand ‘Digital Elevation’.
• 5) Expand ‘SRTM’.
• 6) Select ‘SRTM 1 Arc-Second Global’.
• 7) Click the ‘Results »’ button (we can skip ‘Additional Criteria’).

_{Select the SRTM elevation data.}

• 8) Use the ‘Show Footprint’ and ‘Show Browse Overlay’ buttons to help you select the SRTM data you wish to download.
• 9) Click the ‘Download Options’ button and then click the ‘Geotiff Download’ button.

_{Download your SRTM data.}

• 10) When it has finished downloading, move your SRTM tiff file into the ‘satellite_imagery’ folder you are using for this course.

_{The SRTM data in your satellite imagery course folder.}

Now we have downloaded our DEM data, let’s use it!