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Article Dans Une Revue Headway in Spatial Data Handling Année : 2008

Sensitivity of the C-band SRTM DEM vertical accuracy to terrain characteristics and spatial resolution

Thierry Castel
Pascal Oettli
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This work reports the results of a careful regional analysis of the SRTM DEM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission – Digital Elevation Model) vertical accuracy as a function of both topography and Land-Use/Land Cover (LULC). Absolute vertical errors appear LULC-dependent, with some values greater than the stated accuracy of the SRTM dataset, mostly over forested areas. The results show that the structure of the errors is well modeled by a cosine power n of the local incidence angle (loc). SRTM quality is further assessed using slope and topographical similarity indexes. The results show a lower relative accuracy on slope with a R2 = 0.5 and a moderate agreement (Kappa ≃ 0.4) between SRTM- and IGN-derived slopes. The application of a simple cosine squared correction on the 90 m SRTM dataset shows only a slight improvement of the relative accuracy despite a 7 m decrease of the mean absolute elevation error. The accuracy is strongly improved (R2 = 0.93 and Kappa = 0.75) for data resampled at a 150 m to 500 m horizontal resolution. These results support the idea that for regional application purposes the topographic correction as well as the spatial resampling of the SRTMdataset are needed.

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Climatologie

Dates et versions

hal-00335438 , version 1 (29-10-2008)

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Thierry Castel, Pascal Oettli. Sensitivity of the C-band SRTM DEM vertical accuracy to terrain characteristics and spatial resolution. Headway in Spatial Data Handling, 2008, pp.163-176. ⟨10.1007/978-3-540-68566-1⟩. ⟨hal-00335438⟩
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