Background
The U. S. Department of Defense produces several kinds of digital
cartographic data. One is digital elevation data, in a series called
DTED, for Defense Digital Terrain Elevation Data. The data is available
as 1-by-1 degree quadrangles at horizontal resolutions ranging from
about 1 kilometer to 1 meter. The lowest resolution data is available
to the public. Higher resolution data is restricted to the U.S. Department
of Defense and its contractors.
Determining the files needed to cover a particular region requires
knowledge of the DTED database naming conventions. This function constructs
the file names for a given geographic region based on these conventions.