DTED Addon
Digital Terrain Elevation Data standard
DTED (or Digital Terrain Elevation Data) is a standard of digital datasets which consists of a matrix of terrain elevation values, i.e., a Digital Elevation Model. This standard was originally developed in the 1970s to support aircraft radar simulation and prediction. Terrain elevations are described as the height above the Earth Gravitational Model 1996 (EGM96) geoid, not the WGS84 reference ellipsoid.
DTED supports many applications, including line-of-sight analyses, terrain profiling, 3-D terrain visualization, mission planning/rehearsal, and modeling and simulation. DTED is a standard National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) product that provides medium resolution, quantitative data in a digital format for military system applications that require terrain elevation.
The DTED format for level 0, 1 and 2 is described in U.S. Military Specification Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED) MIL-PRF-89020B, and amongst other parameters describes the resolution for each level:
- Level 0 has a post spacing of approximately 900 meters.
- Level 1 has a post spacing of approximately 90 meters.
- Level 2 has a post spacing of approximately 30 meters.
Software Sources
https://repository.gael.fr/software/sources/trunk/drb/extensions/cortex/topics/dted
Software Releases
http://repository.gael.fr/nexus/content/repositories/releases/fr/gael/drb/drbx-cortex-topic-dted
Reference Data
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Reference documents
PERFORMANCE SPECIFICATION – DIGITAL TERRAIN ELEVATION DATA (DTED)
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