Extracting DEM Values

[MidNight Mapper]

A week over ago I was hunting for insight on how we might extract DEM information from GE... an easy way. A poster named Anton suggested:

yes - just use the original source ;)

ftp://e0srp01u.ecs.nasa.gov/srtm/
http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/

Regards - Anton
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While necessarily adequate it is not the sufficient solution I was seeking. If the GE cursor can extract elevation might there be any logical looping against a "grid" or "lattice" to gain DEM tables? Or is there some easier way? Why? For all of you who are not GISers, there are all sorts of interesting things that can come from slope and roughness as well as viewsheds and the like. GE has such wealth of core spatial value that if such data extraction was enabled, say as a result of a Pro license, it availability would quickly attract many more from the GIS community. And if the rumor-ology of the GE-blog-o-sphere has true insight, soon the GE community might actually be able to access the Shuttle Mission that resolved 80 percent of the earth's topology to +/- something like 0.5m or 1.5 ft aprox. And that info is something the US taxpayer might have interest in?

MidNight Mapper :spin:

[macnetz]

soon the GE community might actually be able to access the Shuttle Mission that resolved 80 percent of the earth's topology to +/- something like 0.5m or 1.5 ft aprox.Hi MidNight Mapper,

the links which I posted are pointing to the data from the Shuttle Mission called "Shuttle Radar Topography Mission"
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/
There is no better worldwide DEM available at the moment. If you know how this DEM works and how GE and many other GIS- and GPS-Programs are using this DEM you can see the shortcommings too ;)

Regards - Anton