A Python module and web API for worldwide elevation data.
This project is a part of the larger Tawhiri Landing Predictor Software.
The digital elevation data is sourced from the Viewfinder Panoramas website.
See the CUSF wiki for more details: http://www.cusf.co.uk/wiki/ruaumoko.
See AUTHORS.
Ruaumoko is Copyright 2014 (see AUTHORS & individual files) and licensed under the GNU GPL 3 (see LICENSE).
Python dependences may be found in requirements.txt. To run the downloader
you will also require the unzip command (from the Debian package of the same
name) and convert (from imagemagick).
Throughout Ruaumoko, data is indexed latitude-first/row-first
The 15-arcsecond (i.e., dividing a degree into 240 points) data comes as a
grid of 24 TIFs, named A-X (C layout).
Each TIF is a 10801 by 14401 array of 16 bit signed integers.
The download script concatenates the arrays (after unpacking the TIFs) to get
a single binary file, which is cast to an array with dimensions
(4, 6, 10801, 14401).
Note that 4 * 10800 = 180 * 240 and 6 * 14400 = 360 * 240.
Each TIF overlaps with the ones on each side by one row, that is, the 10801th row of 'A' is the same as the 1st row of chunk 'G'.
The top left corner of chunk A is at (lat) 90 (lng) -180. Latitude decreases down the rows; longitude increases along the columns.