Helmut,
From the doc, the ACE tiles are just raw files. So this is the perfect
use case for using VRT descriptions for raw files :
http://www.gdal.org/gdal_vrttut.html#gdal_vrttut_vrt
For example, for the 30N000E.ACE file, you can create a 30N000E.VRT
description file
GEOGCS["WGS
84",DA
hi,
has anyone information if gdal is able to read "ACE - Altimeter Corrected
Elevations"-DEM-data from ESA?
overview ace2-data
http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/EAPRS/products_ace_overview.html
3 SECOND DATASET - Data_Format_and_Source_3S
http://tethys.eaprs.cse.dmu.ac.uk/ACE2/docs/Data_Format_and_Sour