SRTM4 elevation data reader
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# SRTM4 (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission)
Download and parsing of SRTM4 elevation data.
[Carlo de Franchis](mailto:carlo.de-franchis@cmla.ens-cachan.fr), Enric Meinhardt, Gabriele Facciolo, CMLA 2018
# Installation and dependencies
srtm4 requires libtiff development files. They can be installed with apt-get install libtiff-dev (Ubuntu, Debian) or brew install libtiff (macOS).
Once libtiff is installed, srtm4 can be installed with pip:
pip install srtm4
# Usage
In a Python interpreter:
>>> import srtm4 >>> longitude, latitude = 2, 48 >>> altitude = srtm4.srtm4(longitude, latitude) >>> print(altitude) # should be 174.613 (altitude in meters above the WGS84 ellipsoid)
In a shell:
GEOID_PATH=data ./bin/srtm4 2 48
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