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Regional workshop for South America: data distribution
During the workshop, the GLCN staff distributed to the participants the national coverages of Landsat images (MSS, TM and ETM+ sensors, all bands) and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)-based elevation data to participants. Data distribution was undertaken under the outreach activities programme promoted by GLCN for its members.
LANDSAT IMAGERY
The coverage for South America of Landsat images takes almost 2720 scenes and about 500 GB of file size (see summary).

The figure on the right shows one sample DVD cover.
Larger countries such as Argentina and Brazil had their images distributed using external hard disks.
DVD cover sample

SRTM mosaics
The coverage for South America of SRTM mosaics takes 8 and about 1.5 GB of compressed ARC/INFO grid files.

The figure on the right shows the South America DVD cover for SRTM data. The DVD also includes an ESRI ArcView project, country boundaries and index files for SRTM and Landsat data, a free software for rendering elevation and overlapping images (static 3D view), and various documents supporting the use of the data.
DVD cover sample


 
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