Preliminary version of a DEM over Europe from the GSGRDA project (EU-DEM-PRE, resolution 25 m)

The EU-DEM is a Digital Surface Model (DSM) representing the first surface as illuminated by the sensors. EU-DEM covers the EEA39 countries and it has been produced by a consortium led by Indra, Intermap edited the EUDEM and AGI provided the water mask. The EU-DEM is a 3D raster dataset with elevations captured at 1 arc second postings (2.78E-4 degrees) or about every 30 meter. It is a hybrid product based on SRTM and ASTER GDEM data fused by a weighted averaging approach. Ownership of EU-DEM belongs to European Commision, DG Enterprise and Industry.

The projection onto an Inspire compliant grid of 25m resolution has been performed by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.

Date ( Creation ): 2012-05-01

Identifier: jrc_r_3035_25_m_gsgrda-eudem_2012

Status: Obsolete

Point of contact

European Commission, Joint Research Centre - Forest Resources and Climate Unit H3

IPR-26A 00/043 , Via Enrico Fermi 2749 , Ispra , 21027 , Italy

http://ies.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

Custodian

European Commission, Joint Research Centre - Forest Resources and Climate Unit H3

IPR-26A 00/043 , Via Enrico Fermi 2749 , Ispra , 21027 , Italy

http://ies.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )

Elevation
Hydrography

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

Elevation
Hydrography
Mapping
Cartography
Geography
Geodesy
Photogrammetry
Radar
Remote sensing

EEA keyword list

elevation
DEM

EEA categories ( Theme )

geospatial data

Use limitation: Premilinary data delivered in the course of the GSGRDA* contract of DG ENTR.

All data and descriptions herein are COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL and for EVALUATION purposes ONLY.

They must stay strictly INTERNAL (i.e. within EU Institutions).

Only after acceptance of the product by DG ENTR these data may be disclosed.

Access constraints: Restricted

Use constraints: Restricted

Spatial representation type: Grid

Distance: 25 http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ISO_19139_Schemas/resources/uom/ML_gmxUom.xml#m

Metadata language: en

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Elevation

Begin date: 2000-01-01

End date: 2010-12-31

CRS identifier: EPSG:3035

Distribution format

GTiff ( )

OnLine resource: Direct download (Eionet authentication) ( WWW:URL )

OnLine resource: https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/continental/europe/elevation/gsgrda-eudem/jrc_r_3035_25_m_gsgrda-eudem_2012 ( EEA:FOLDERPATH )

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Date ( Publication ): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Statement: The EU-DEM data product is derived from an automated data fusion process using SRTM and ASTER GDEM digital surface model (DSM) data. Intermap's NEXTMap Europe dataset is utilized to remove any consistent horizontal bias in the GDEM data. The EU-DEM product is edited to ensure that water features are adequately represented and consistent with the hydrography layer provided by Aerogeodezijos Institutas (AGI) in Kaunas, Lithuania. Residual clouds within the GDEM data are identified and removed same as suspect data extremely differing from the SRTM data. All EU-DEM tiles are edited interactively in a 3D stereo environment. The editing is restricted to the hydrographic features and pits and bumps. In areas above 60 degress North, the EU-DEM generation process is supported by other DEM data sources provided by JRC. Water features are flattened (oceans, lakes) and stepped (rivers) based on the hydrography data produced by AGI. The spatial reference system of the original EU-DEM is geographic, lat/lon with horizontal datum ETRS89, ellipsoid GRS80 and vertical datum EVRS2000 with geoid EGG08.

This dataset has been projected to ETRS89/ETRS-LAEA (EPSG code 3035).

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