Digital Chart of the World Digital Elevation Data - 200 metre slices

tev200m

Institute for Water Quality Studies metadata.
Summary created by Elna with catalog.aml on 1999-04-01 - 14:57:56
File owner: elise, last modified: 1 Apr (less than 1yr ago)
Map extent:
-1476093W.1969274E
-1442362S---1442362S
-3964345S...-3964345S
-1476093W.1969274E

Projection information (see end of this page for details)
Projection ALBERS latitude of projection's origin 0 0 0.000
Units METERS Spheroid CLARKE1880

Scale
1000000
Date
1995
Description
Digital Chart of the World Digital Elevation Data - 200 metre slices
Owner
Customer Services EROS Data Center
Owner_address
Customer Services
EROS Data Center
Mundt Federal Building
Sioux Falls, SD 57198
Owner_contact
FTP to 152.61.128.6 (edcftp.cr.usgs.gov)
Owner_country
United States of America
Owner_phone
(605) 594-6151
Owner_fax
(605) 594-6589
Owner_email
klarson@dgl.cr.usgs.gov, jenson@dg1.cr.usgs.gov
Disclaimer
No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of this data
Copyright_message
USGS & EROS
Copyright_warning
data in the public domain
History 


This is a reclassed version of the USGS African DEM, at 200m intervals.

See the lut INFO file with the same name as the coverage for

information on what the item GRID-CODE means.

See the source file for tev1000m for more (lots!) on the USGS DEM.

  Logo
/hri/db/clip/usgs

Point items, 851kbyte:
2 Dec 1996, elise:
5 data fields
ITEMEXAMPLESWIDTHTYPEREDEFINED?INDEXED?
AREA203984281604.3 floatpnt
PERIMETER125776624.3 floatpnt
TEV200M#14.0 binary
TEV200M-ID634.0 binary
GRID-CODE74.0 binary

Map specifications: 
  Description of SINGLE precision coverage /spek/waterm/wmdata/general/tev200m

                                FEATURE CLASSES

                                    Number of  Attribute     Spatial
Feature Class          Subclass     Features   data (bytes)  Index?   Topology?
-------------          --------     ---------  ------------  -------  ---------
ARCS                                    60498
POLYGONS                                43562        20      Yes    Preliminary
NODES                                   36645

                               SECONDARY FEATURES

Tics                                        4
Arc Segments                           606318
Polygon Labels                          43561

                                   TOLERANCES

Fuzzy   =               345.826 V          Dangle  =                 0.000 N

                               COVERAGE BOUNDARY

Xmin =             -1319485.500            Xmax =              1812666.125
Ymin =             -3807737.750            Ymax =             -1598970.000

                                     STATUS

Use BUILD or CLEAN to create Topology from Preliminary POLYGONS.

                          COORDINATE SYSTEM DESCRIPTION

Projection               ALBERS
Units                    METERS             Spheroid             CLARKE1880
Parameters:
1st standard parallel                                  -18  0  0.000
2nd standard parallel                                  -32  0  0.000
central meridian                                        24  0  0.000
latitude of projection's origin                          0  0  0.000
false easting (meters)                                       0.00000
false northing (meters)                                      0.00000