NASA HGT DEM - Global Dataset - Dataset

Field	Value
Author	Natural Capital Project, Stanford University
Tags	DEM DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL INVEST INPUT INVEST-READY NASA
Places	GLOBAL
Last Updated	September 5, 2025, 16:18 (UTC)
Created	October 25, 2024, 00:57 (UTC)
Natcap Last Updated	2025-09-05T16:18:13.189196+00:00

Cite this dataset

NASA JPL (2020).NASADEM Merged DEM Global 1 arc second V001 [Data set]. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center. Accessed 2024-07-02 from https://doi.org/10.5067/MEaSUREs/NASADEM/NASADEM_HGT.001

Embed this layer into your website

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Use this data in Python

from osgeo import gdal

raster = gdal.OpenEx('/vsicurl/https://storage.googleapis.com/natcap-data-cache/global/nasa-hgt-v1-1s/nasa-hgt-v1-1s.tif')
band = raster.GetRasterBand(1)
array = band.ReadAsArray(
    xoff=my_window_x_offset,
    yoff=my_window_y_offset,
    win_xsize=my_window_width_in_pixels,
    win_ysize=my_window_height_in_pixels)