Terrain Tiles

Description

A global dataset providing bare-earth terrain heights, tiled for easy usage and provided on S3.

Update Frequency

New data is added based on community feedback

License

https://github.com/tilezen/joerd/blob/master/docs/attribution.md

Documentation

https://github.com/tilezen/joerd/tree/master/docs

Contact

https://github.com/tilezen/joerd/issues

Usage Examples

Tools & Applications

• R package for accessing Terrain Tiles by Jeffrey W. Hollister
  
• Mapzen Terrain Tiles on AWS Reader by Safe Software
  
• Sentinel Hub WMS/WMTS/WCS Service for DEM by Sinergise
  
• Sentinel Playground for DEM by Sinergise
  
• EOS Land Viewer by Earth Observing System
  
• Open-Source Elevation Service by Racemap
  
• On The Go Map by On The Go Map
  
• PlanetUtils (GitHub): Scripts and a Docker container to download, merge, and resample terrain tiles by Interline Technologies
  
• PODPAC: Python Library supporting TerrainTiles for analysis by Creare
  
• Terradactile: Generate DEM and hillshade Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs for visualization and download based on terrain tiles by Sparkgeo
  

Publications

• Interactive Visualization of 3D Terrain Data Stored in the Cloud by Gregory Larrick, Yun Tian, Uri Rogers, Halim Acosta, and Fangyang Shen