Re: SRTM Australia

> the Australian data was recently posted here
> ftp://edcsgs9.cr.usgs.gov/pub/data/srtm/


Brilliant.


I'd note that Africa and Islandia have been released as well, so we have
the whole world 60N to 60S now.



Obligitory plug for cleaning and displaying tools for SRTM + Digital
Chart of the World (VMAP0) data:

  http://mpa.itc.it/rs/srtm/


Included scripts:
srtm_generate_hdr.sh: general shell script to make GeoTIFF from original
SRTM90 files. Requires GDAL tools to be installed.
  http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal

r.in.srtm: GRASS GIS script to import original SRTM files. Requires above
script to be installed in PATH. Fixes the INTEGER encoding, applies
color table. To use in Lat/Long LOCATIONS (WGS84, to be precise EGM96).
  http://grass.ibiblio.org


Holes in the SRTM data can be closed within GRASS with 'r.fillnulls'
(uses splines). 




Hope that's useful to someone.



Hamish