# DTED -- Military Elevation Data

GDAL supports DTED Levels 0, 1, and 2 elevation data for read access. Elevation data is returned as 16 bit signed integer. Appropriate projection (always WGS84) and georeferencing information is also returned. A variety of header fields are returned dataset level metadata.

## Creation Issues

The DTED driver does support creating new files, but the input data must be exactly formatted as a Level 0, 1 or 2 cell. That is the size, and bounds must be appropriate for a cell.

## See Also:

- Implemented as `gdal/frmts/dted/dteddataset.cpp`.