DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8086806
title: DEMIX 1" Reference DEMs version 2.0

description: This reference data supports the work of the Digital Elevation Model Intercomparison eXercise (DEMIX) working group (Strobl and others, 2021; Guth and others, 2021; Bielski and others, 2023, 2024). 

The data set consists of:



Excel metadata file with two tabs:



Credits for each of 24 areas for the source of the high resolution data sets, the number of DEMIX tiles (Guth and others, 2023) in that area, the resolution of the source data, and credits for the processing.

The national mapping agencies (or equivalent) that provided the free high resolution data, and the files used for the vertical datum transformations.



ZIP file with the 1” grids used to support the DEMIX work and create the DEMIX database (Guth, 2023).  The file also includes databases for each area required to use the data in MICRODEM.


 

Changes to version 2



Version 1 should no longer be used

Now contains 236 DEMIX tiles

Added 2 new area, Stateline and Canary Islands east which should have minimal differences between the DSM and the DTM and no significant changes over the last 20 years.

Added 4 new areas in France from Visioterra

Added some additional tiles for a few areas

Fixed some anomalies in aggregation to 1” DEMs

Now using GDAL to compute the computed datum shift, horizontal and vertical, for USGS 3DEP

Recomputed all the reference data and the GIS database (Guth, 2023)


To understand the use of the reference data, see the forthcoming paper (Bielski and others, 2023).

References:

Bielski, C.; López-Vázquez, C.; Guth. P.L.; Grohmann, C.H. and the TMSG DEMIX Working Group, 2023. DEMIX Wine Contest Method Ranks ALOS AW3D30, COPDEM, and FABDEM as Top 1” Global DEMs: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.08425.pdf

Bielski, C.; López-Vázquez, C.; Grohmann, C.H.; Guth. P.L.; Hawker, L.; Gesch, D.; Trevisani, S.; Herrera-Cruz, V.; Riazanoff, S.; Corseaux, A.; Reuter, H.; Strobl, P., 2024. Novel approach for ranking DEMs: Copernicus DEM improves one arc second open global topography. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience & Remote Sensing.   vol. 62, pp. 1-22, 2024, Art no. 4503922,   https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2024.3368015

Guth, P. L., 2023. DEMIX GIS Database Version 2 (2.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8062008

Guth, P.L., Strobl, P., Gross, K., & Riazanoff, S. (2023). DEMIX 10k Tile Data Set (1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7504791

Guth, P.L.; Van Niekerk, A.; Grohmann, C.H.; Muller, J.-P.; Hawker, L.; Florinsky, I.V.; Gesch, D.; Reuter, H.I.; Herrera-Cruz, V.; Riazanoff, S.; López-Vázquez, C.; Carabajal, C.C.; Albinet, C.; Strobl, P. Digital Elevation Models: Terminology and Definitions. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 3581. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13183581

Strobl, P.A.; Bielski, C.; Guth, P.L.; Grohmann, C.H.; Muller, J.P.; López-Vázquez, C.; Gesch, D.B.; Amatulli, G.; Riazanoff, S.; Carabajal, C. The Digital Elevation Model Intercomparison eXperiment DEMIX, a community based approach at global DEM benchmarking. Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spat. Inf. Sci. 2021, XLIII-B4-2021, 395–400. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B4-2021-395-2021