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Digital Elevation Models And Relief Models

Digital Elevation Models And Relief Models. Part 1: The Underlying Elevation Data. Digital Elevation Models are:. Data files that contain the elevation of the terrain over a specified area, usually at a fixed grid interval

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Digital Elevation Models And Relief Models

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  1. Digital Elevation Models And Relief Models DEM

  2. Part 1:The Underlying Elevation Data DEM

  3. Digital Elevation Models are: • Data files that contain the elevation of the terrain over a specified area, usually at a fixed grid interval • The intervals between each of the grid points will always be referenced to some geographical coordinate system. (e.g. latitude-longitude, UTM, SP). • The closer together the grid points are located, the more detailed the information will be in the file. The details of the peaks and valleys in the terrain will be better modeled with a small grid spacing than when the grid intervals are very large. Elevations other than at the specific grid point locations are not contained in the file. As a result peak points and valley points not coincident with the grid will not be recorded in the file. •  The DEM file also does not contain civil information such as roads or buildings. It is not a scanned image of the paper map (graphic). It is not a bitmap. The DEM does not contain elevation contours, only the specific elevation values at specific grid point locations. (SEE NEXT SLIDE FOR EXAMPLE) source: http://www.softwright.com/dem.html DEM

  4. 67 56 49 46 50 53 44 37 38 48 58 55 22 31 24 61 47 21 16 19 53 34 12 11 12 Digital Elevation Model: What it looks like Lay a grid over some part of the world and find the average elevation in each cell DEM

  5. 67 56 49 46 50 53 44 37 38 48 58 55 22 31 24 61 47 21 16 19 53 34 12 11 12 Cell Definition cell size 50 (cell value) cell The size of a cell is in either: meters, feet, degrees, or arc seconds DEM

  6. DEM Data Sources Primary Data Sources: • Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) or other airborne sensors Secondary Sources from existing maps: • 30m DEMs from 1:24,000 scale map • 1” (arc second ) National Elevation Dataset • 3" (100m) DEMs from 1:250,000 scale maps • 30" DEM of the earth (GTOPO30) DEM

  7. Primary Data Source Generation:Space Shuttle DEM

  8. Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) • 1 arc-second elevation data for the United States, 3 arc-second data for the globe • Produced by radar measurements from a Shuttle mission, Feb 11-22, 2000 • http://srtm.usgs.gov/data/obtainingdata.html DEM

  9. DEM

  10. Santa Barbara, California http://srtm.usgs.gov/srtmimagegallery/index.html DEM

  11. San Andreas Fault, California DEM http://srtm.usgs.gov/srtmimagegallery/index.html

  12. Salt Lake City, Utah http://srtm.usgs.gov/srtmimagegallery/index.html DEM

  13. Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania http://srtm.usgs.gov/srtmimagegallery/index.html DEM

  14. Interferometry used by SRTM In interferometry, two images are taken from different vantage points of the same area. The slight difference in the two images allows scientists to determine the height of the surface. DEM

  15. Secondary Data Source Generation:Using USGS Topographic Maps DEM

  16. 200 Meter Mesh (Universal Transverse Mercator Coordinates) 1km 1km DEM

  17. 100m 100 Meter Mesh (UTM Coordinates) 1km 100m 1km DEM

  18. 30 Meter MeshStandard for 1:24,000 Scale Maps DEM

  19. DEM Lattice Points DEM

  20. DEM Cell Stores Elevation at Lattice Point DEM

  21. DEM Elevations 720 720 Contours 740 720 700 680 740 720 700 680 DEM

  22. Comparison Cell Size 30m 100m DEM

  23. 30m DEMs • Best resolution standardized data source available for the US • Coverage of the country is incomplete • Data by 7.5’ map sheets in UTM projection • Link for UShttp://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/Webglis/glisbin/guide.pl/glis/hyper/guide/usgs_dem DEM

  24. Seamless 1” DEM for the US in 1° x 1° blocks Compiled by synthesizing the 30m DEM’s from 1:24,000 scale maps Link to website http://edcnts12.cr.usgs.gov/ned/ National Elevation Dataset DEM

  25. Part 2:Representation of elevation data DEM

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