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Calculation of Effective antenna heights(eff_hgt) using the SRTM1 and GDEM v3 Terrain Databases


To ensure proper results, please enter degrees, minutes and seconds as shown below. Leading zeros are not required.
Longitude (ex: 281836) latitude (ex: -152512) Antenna height (ex: 150)
East/West = /- North/South = /- meters agl
Adm Site EFFHGT* EHAAT
EFFHGT is the effective height of the transmitting antenna, which is the height of the antenna above terrain height averaged between distances of 3 to 15 km in the direction of the receiving antenna. In the absence of effective antenna height data, the values resulting from this query can be pasted into relevant electronic notice forms.
*FOR ITU NOTIFICATION, USE ONLY EFFHGT
The effective height of the antenna above average terrain (EHAAT) is the average of the antenna heights above the average terrain (HAATs) for eight radials spaced every 45 degrees of azimuth starting with true north. The height of the antenna above average terrain (HAAT) is the height of the centre of radiation of the antenna above the average elevation of the terrain between 3 to 16 km from the antenna for each radial. EHAAT is only used locally in Region 2. For latitudes beyond the limits of the SRTM1 terrain dataset, the GDEM v3 terrain dataset will be used.
Image below is for info only.
Projection information for each data file in SRTM1 and GDEM v3.
Projection Geographic (latitude/longitude)
Datum WGS84
Zunits Meters above mean sea level
Hunits 1 arc-second of latitude and longitude
Spheroid WGS84
SRTM1 and GDEM V3 data from USGS: https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/
Code modified by D. Botha; Web version 1.0 by J.-M. Paquet 060518.
comments to: andrea . manara @ itu.int

 

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