Description
Summary:Progress Code: completed Purpose To provide global topography accessible by code from anywhere, this format is the most efficient for online arbitrary requests for a region anywhere on earth. The GEBCO_2021 Grid provides global coverage of elevation data in meters on a 15 arc-second grid of 43200 rows x 86400 columns, giving 3,732,480,000 data points. The GEBCO 2021 grid is reformatted as a Cloud Optimised GeoTIFF suitable for online requests and republished for use by science software. Original GEBCO grid was obtained from https://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/gridded_bathymetry_data/gebco_2021/