Experiments with the global JAXA ALOS World 30m elevation model on AWS S3 +++
So yesterday I was looking into a global 30m elevation model called the ALOS Global Digital Surface Model (AW3D30). It is from 2016 and produced by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Supposedly it is a pretty [decent...
Hosting and accessing cloud optimized GeoTIFF files on AWS S3 - A practical guide using the EU-DEM elevation model +++
There are lots of great geospatial datasets available online, but accessing this data automatically and at scale is often difficult, and manual access usually takes a bit of work to download and sort it all. You'll have to register for some silly data portal, pick out the tiles that overlap...