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Copernicus 30m   Bulk Download   Global API     opentopoID: OTSDEM.032021.4326.3

Copernicus 90m   Bulk Download   Global API     opentopoID: OTSDEM.032021.4326.1

Collection Overview:

The Copernicus DEM is a Digital Surface Model (DSM) which represents the surface of the Earth including buildings, infrastructure and vegetation. This DSM is derived from an edited DSM named WorldDEM, where flattening of water bodies and consistent flow of rivers has been included. In addition, editing of shore- and coastlines, special features such as airports, and implausible terrain structures has also been applied.

The WorldDEM product is based on the radar satellite data acquired during the TanDEM-X Mission, which is funded by a Public Private Partnership between the German State, represented by the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) and Airbus Defence and Space. OpenTopography is providing access to the global GLO-30 and GLO-90 Defence Gridded Elevation Data (DGED) 2023_1 version of the data hosted by ESA via the https PRISM service. Details on the Copernicus DSM can be found on this ESA site.

Important Notes:

• Previous to July 23rd 2024, OpenTopography was providing access to the Copernicus data through the public AWS S3 bucket established by Sinergise. As of July 23rd 2024, Opentopography is providing the DGED 2023_1 version of GLO-30 and GLO-90 as downloaded directly from ESA (direct download instructions can be found here). For more details on the Copernicus data accessible though OpenTopography, see the survey report below.
• The original gridded data from ESA is in geographic coordinates where the longitudinal cell spacing increases as a function of latitude for regions north of 50N and south of 50S. For more details see the Grid Spacing section of the Copernicus DEM handbook. In order to keep the pixel dimensions uniform, OpenTopography resamples data north of 50 degrees latitude and south of -50 degrees latitude in order to output a consistent 1 Arc-second or 3 Arc-second product for data accessed through the web-interface or API. Users who need data north of 50N or south of 50S, and prefer to use the original, longitude-varying grid spacing can download cloud optimized geotiff (COG) versions of the tiles from our bulk download interface, or download the original data directly from ESA.
• The GLO-30 and GLO-90 datasets are available on a free basis for the general public under the terms and conditions of the Copernicus license found here.

Dataset Acknowledgement: N/A - Acknowledgement Guidance

Dataset Citation: European Space Agency (2024). Copernicus Global Digital Elevation Model. Distributed by OpenTopography. https://doi.org/10.5069/G9028PQB. Accessed: 2024-07-26       Copied to Clipboard

Use License: © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved.

Dataset Keywords: Copernicus, ESA, DSM, TanDEM-X, DLR, SAR, Airbus, lidar

Survey Date: 01/01/2011 - 07/01/2015

Publication Date: 04/22/2021

Data Provider and Roles:
Funder

• European Space Agency

Partners

• German Aerospace Centre
• Airbus Defence and Space

Area: 184,190,608 km²
Raster Resolution: 30 meter, 90 meter

Coordinate System:
Horizontal: WGS84 [EPSG: 4326]
Vertical: EGM2008 [EPSG: 3855]

Units: meter

Survey Report: Reports

Dataset Extent in GeoJSON format:
Raster: COP30.geojson
Raster: COP90.geojson

Dataset Spatial Bounds: North: 84.0°     South: -90.0°     East: 180.0000000000001°     West: -179.9999999999999°