globe.c

github

CLI toolset for the Global Land One-kilometer Base Elevation (GLOBE) dataset. GLOBE is a global 1km-resolution digital elevation model, compiled by NOAA in 1999.

The data is suitable for medium-resolution global terrain modeling. The raw data is 1.8GB uncompressed.

globe.c is provided as a single 72Kb executable, capable of loading the raw elevation data files into an efficient array, as well as converting the data into tabular or image formats. It is written in C99.

• Unified raw binary
• globe.bin (1.7G)
• globe.bin.zst (232M)
• Tabular global extracts
• globe.csv (7.3G)
• globe.parquet (324M)
• Lossless tiled png images
• 1/0/0.png (13M)
• 1/0/1.png (8.5M)
• 1/1/0.png (18M)
• 1/0/1.png (8.9M)