how to read NASA .hgt binary files

Question

I\'m sure this is really simple if you know anything about binary files, but I\'m a newbie on that score.

How would I extract the data from NASA .hgt files? Here is

Answer 1

If you have photoshop you might be able to play around with the raw import to get it to read these files and save them out to something more useful. I have had some success doing this sort of thing in the past.