Baugh

Berry

Carabajal

Chmura

Christopher C. Sampson

Dai Yamazaki

Daiki Ikeshima

DiMiceli

Farr

Fiachra O'Loughlin

Fluet-Chouinard

Fricker

Gallant

Hansen

Harding

Hirt

Hough

Jeffery C. Neal

Johnson

Kaplan

Krieger

Laudon

Martin

Maxwell

O'Loughlin

Paul D. Bates

Pekel

Richey

Robinson

Rodriguez

Rudorff

Ryunosuke Tawatari

Sampson

Schumann

Shinjiro Kanae

Simard

Tang

Tarekegn

Tomohiro Yamaguchi

Vente

Ward

Yamazaki

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Geophysical Research Letters

A high-accuracy map of global terrain elevations

Spaceborne digital elevation models (DEMs) are a fundamental input for many geoscience studies, but they still include nonnegligible height errors. Here we introduce a high-accuracy global DEM at 3″ resolution (~90 m at the equator) by eliminating major error components from existing DEMs. We separated absolute bias, stripe noise, speckle noise, and tree height bias using multiple satellite data sets and filtering techniques. After the error removal, land areas mapped with ±2 m or better vertical accuracy were increased from 39% to 58%. Significant improvements were found in flat regions where height errors larger than topography variability, and landscapes such as river networks and hill-valley structures, became clearly represented. We found the topography slope of previous DEMs was largely distorted in most of world major floodplains (e.g., Ganges, Nile, Niger, and Mekong) and swamp forests (e.g., Amazon, Congo, and Vasyugan). The newly developed DEM will enhance many geoscience applications which are terrain dependent.</p

Yamazaki, Dai

Ikeshima, Daiki

Tawatari, Ryunosuke

Yamaguchi, Tomohiro

O'Loughlin, Fiachra

Neal, Jeffery C.

Sampson, Christopher C.

Kanae, Shinjiro

Bates, Paul D.

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A high-accuracy map of global terrain elevations

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