[Data]: Modified Copernicus Digital Elevation Models used by the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) Mission

[wildintellect]

Dataset Name

C3803703055-ASF

Dataset Description

Collection of modified Copernicus Digital Elevation Models created by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and used for creation of products from the NISAR mission.

https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3803703055-ASF.html

Requestor Name/Affiliation

Sam N. at JPL MAAP/NISAR @nemo794

Platform/Method/Sensor

Copernicus DEM

URL or DOI to Dataset Description

https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3803703055-ASF.html

URL to Download or Access the Data

https://dx.doi.org/10.5067/NIDEM-1

Data License

ESA Custom https://nisar.asf.earthdatacloud.nasa.gov/NISAR/DEM/v1.2/EPSG4326/LICENSE.pdf

Intended Science Use Case

Provides access methods that other NISAR products will be distributed under. Necessary Input for some NISAR processing algorithms.

Format of the Data

Nested VRT in several projections, GeoTiff (COG) for the actual data.

Approximate Size of the Data

No response

Date Needed By

01/28/26

Additional Information

https://nisar-docs.asf.alaska.edu/

[wildintellect]

TODO:

• We should test if you can use the VRT with HTTPS, S3 or both. It looks like the paths are a relative and should work with either.
• If S3 does it work with temporary S3 credential access?

[nemo794]

FYI -- here is the product info page, with the NISAR DEM description and license info: https://nisar.asf.earthdatacloud.nasa.gov/NISAR/DEM/v1.2/EPSG4326/README.txt

[wildintellect]

DEM_73_00_39_00_C01.tif is a valid cloud optimized GeoTIFF