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Reference

Farr, Tom G., and Mike Kobrick. "Shuttle Radar Topography Mission produces a wealth of data." Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 81, no. 48 (2000): 583-585.

Asher, Sam, Tobias Lunt, Ryu Matsuura, and Paul Novosad. "Development research at high geographic resolution: an analysis of night-lights, firms, and poverty in India using the shrug open data platform." The World Bank Economic Review 35, no. 4 (2021): 845-871.
@article{farr2000shuttle,
  title={Shuttle Radar Topography Mission produces a wealth of data},
  author={Farr, Tom G and Kobrick, Mike},
  journal={Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union},
  volume={81},
  number={48},
  pages={583--585},
  year={2000},
  publisher={Wiley Online Library}
}

@article{almn2021,
  title={Development research at high geographic resolution: an analysis of night-lights, firms, and poverty in India using the shrug open data platform},
  author={Asher, Sam and Lunt, Tobias and Matsuura, Ryu and Novosad, Paul},
  journal={The World Bank Economic Review},
  volume={35},
  number={4},
  year={2021},
  publisher={Oxford University Press}
}
About Elevation data is from SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) at 1-arc second resolution. Its Digital Object Identifier (DOI) number is /10.5066/F7PR7TFT. The ruggedness measure TRI is constructed from the elevation data using the method from Riley et al (1999), and used by Nunn and Puga (2012) 'Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa'. The TRI expresses the elevation difference between adjacent pixels. It is the square root of the mean squared difference in elevation values between a pixel and the eight cells immediately surrounding it.
Geographic Coverage National
Aggregations Shrid, District, Subdistrict, Village/Town
Producer US Geological Survey
Source URL https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eros/science/usgs-eros-archive-digital-elevation-shuttle-radar-topography-mission-srtm-1#overview
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Release Details⚓︎

Release Number 2.0
Release Name pakora
Last updated June 27, 2023

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