Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. A Space Shuttle mission that used C-band and X-band interferometric synthetic aperture radars (IFSARs) to acquire topographic data over 80% of Earth’s land mass (between 60°N and 56°S) in February 2000. Digital Elevation Models from this data are freely available at a ground resolution of 30 m/pixel.
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