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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Date ( Creation )
2013-10-01
Date ( Publication )
2013-10-08
Identifier
entr_r_4258_1_arcsec_gsgrda-eudem-dem-europe_2012_rev1
Status
Obsolete
Custodian
  European Environment Agency - Environmental data centre for land use
Kongens Nytorv 6 , Copenhagen , K , 1050 , Denmark
Point of contact
  European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry - Communication and Information Unit R4
BREY 13/092 , Avenue d'Auderghem, 45 , Bruxelles , 1049 , Belgium
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/index_en.htm
Owner
  European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry - Communication and Information Unit R4
BREY 13/092 , Avenue d'Auderghem, 45 , Bruxelles , 1049 , Belgium
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/index_en.htm
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Hydrography
  • Elevation
GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4
  • Elevation
  • Hydrography
  • Mapping
  • Cartography
  • Geography
  • Geodesy
  • Photogrammetry
  • Radar
  • Remote sensing
EEA keyword list
  • elevation
  • DEM
EEA categories
  • geospatial data
Use limitation

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.
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations to public access
Spatial representation type
Grid
Distance
0.0002777777778  http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ISO_19139_Schemas/resources/uom/ML_gmxUom.xml#deg
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Elevation
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Begin date
2000-01-01
End date
2010-12-31
Reference system identifier
OGP Surveying & Positioning Committee / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG:7.1:4258
Distribution format
  • GTiff ( )

OnLine resource
Direct download (Eionet authentication) ( WWW:URL )
OnLine resource
https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/continental/europe/elevation/gsgrda-eudem/entr_r_4258_1_arcsec_gsgrda-eudem-dem-europe_2012_rev1/eudem_dem_4258_europe.tif ( EEA:FILEPATH )
OnLine resource
http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/ds_resolveuid/ca503256de1b4231b029e4145d0a8b7b ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
https://image.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/Elevation/EUElev_DEM_V11/MapServer ( ESRI:REST )
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 is geographic, lat/lon with horizontal datum ETRS89, ellipsoid GRS80 and vertical datum EVRS2000 with geoid EGG08.

gmd:MD_Metadata

File identifier
bbf5a08d-c41a-4f0a-9d04-e4a379460288 XML
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2020-07-10T17:32:13
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  European Environment Agency
Kongens Nytorv 6 , Copenhagen , K , 1050 , Denmark
 
 

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Elevation Hydrography
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