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Cartopy - a cartographic python library with matplotlib support
https://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/docs/latest
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LPDAAC downtime warning #769

Closed jsignell closed 6 years ago

jsignell commented 8 years ago

I was struggling for a while yesterday to get a different source of SRTM3 rasters because LPDAAC was down. It would be nice if the downloader could at least throw this warning from the website: Please note weekly maintenance is every Wednesday 0800-1200 Central Time. Even better would be a direction of how to use another source.

QuLogic commented 8 years ago

Well, that's annoying. Ping @scottyhq who suggested this change to see if he has any suggestions as well.

scottyhq commented 8 years ago

Perhaps it'd be easy to add a Base URL option to the SRTM downloader? But the other servers I know provide 90m hole-filled datasets, not 30m...

In the meantime you can make your own hillshade and then add it to a figure with ax.imshow()

Here is another source I know of for 90m: http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/index.asp And a cool interface http://dwtkns.com/srtm/

The interface for 30m dems I believe uses the same LPDAAC server: http://dwtkns.com/srtm30m/

Or you can download 90m hole-filled scenes (generated differently) through this website: http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov

Some more information here: https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/sites/default/files/public/measures/docs/SRTM%20Quick%20Guide.pdf

jsignell commented 8 years ago

Thanks! Can you point me to any examples of opening raster data? I have been having a hard time figuring it out.

vincentschut commented 6 years ago

ESA has a srtmgl1 (30m) mirror: http://step.esa.int/auxdata/dem/SRTMGL1/ No idea how 'official' this is.