Web Coverage Servers
CatchmentSIM supports direct download of DEM data from Web Coverage Servers (WCS).
Currently, 5 WCS are directly linked via Geoscience Australia but other WCS can be used by selected Other and populating the URL directly in the second field.
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After clicking 'Sample WCS Server', you should find your DEM automatically populated. Please note that some WCS such as the 5 and 25m LiDAR sources do not cover all of Australia.
This forms provides access to online or offline repositories of data such as SRTM3, SRTM1 or SRTMWB.
If you have a local copy of the data files, select 'Local / Network Directory' and enter the data directory. Otherwise, you can select FTP/HTTP site and the NASA FTP site will be selected by default. Set any other required parameters and you can either generate a list of DEMs to be downloaded (which can be loaded into a download manager) or ask CatchmentSIM to automatically download the files, unzip and process (although this can be dependent on your connection and firewall).
