 |  Elevation models from SRTM now available for download free of charge
 26 May 2011
When Space Shuttle Endeavour launched on 11 February 2000 for the ’Shuttle Radar Topography Mission’ (SRTM), it was carrying two radar antennas; one in the shuttle’s payload bay and the other on the end of a 60-metre mast. Over the course of eleven days, researchers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) acquired data for a three-dimensional terrain model of large areas of the Earth. Now, DLR is making these data available for scientific purposes free of charge.
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