EEA geospatial data catalogue
DEM over Europe from the GMES RDA project (EU-DEM, resolution 1 arcsec) - version 1, Oct. 2013
The Digital Elevation Model over Europe from the GMES RDA project (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 metre. It is a hybrid product based on SRTM and ASTER GDEM data fused by a weighted averaging approach. The EU-DEM is generated as a contiguous dataset divided into 1 degree by 1 degree tiles corresponding to the SRTM naming convention. These tiles have then been aggregated into 5°x5° tiles and mosaicked together into a single file by EEA.
The vertical unit of this DSM is metre.
The 5°x5° tiles are provided as GeoTIFF with LZW compression.
The mosaic is provided as GeoTIFF with DEFLATE compression.
Ownership of EU-DEM belongs to European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2013-10-01
- Date (Publication)
- 2013-10-08
- Citation identifier
- entr_r_4258_1_arcsec_gsgrda-eudem-europe_p_2012_v01_r00
- Status
- Obsolete
- Point of contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Custodian
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
Spatial resolution
- Spatial resolution
- 0.0002777777778 deg
- Topic category
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- Elevation
Extent
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Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2000-01-01 2010-12-31
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Hydrography
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Elevation
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- GEMET
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radar
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remote sensing
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geodesy
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geography
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mapping
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hydrography
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cartography
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photogrammetry
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Resource constraints
- Use limitation
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Access to data governed by Commission delegated regulation (EU) No 12386/13 of 12.7.2013 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 911/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Earth monitoring programme (GMES) by establishing registration and licensing conditions for GMES users and defining criteria for restricting access to GMES dedicated data and GMES service information.
The following credit must be displayed when using these data: Data funded under GMES preparatory action 2009 on Reference Data Access by the European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry.
Access and use of the data is made on the conditions that:
1. When distributing or communicating Copernicus data and information to the public, users shall inform the public of the source of that data and information.
2. Users shall make sure not to convey the impression to the public that the user's activities are officially endorsed by the Union.
3. Where that data or information has been adapted or modified, the user shall clearly state this.
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Report
Result
- Title
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
Resource lineage
- Statement
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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 is geographic, lat/lon with horizontal datum ETRS89, ellipsoid GRS80 and vertical datum EVRS2000 with geoid EGG08.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- OGP Surveying & Positioning Committee/urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG:7.1:4258
- Maintenance and update frequency
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- bbf5a08d-c41a-4f0a-9d04-e4a379460288
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/bbf5a08d-c41a-4f0a-9d04-e4a379460288
- Date info (Creation)
- 2013-10-04T14:47:22Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T11:11:39.298372Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115/19139
- Edition
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1.0
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