Continental Europe Digital Terrain Model

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5069/G99021ZF
OT Collection ID: OT.092022.3035.1
OT Collection Name: Continental Europe Digital Terrain Model
Short Name: EU_DTM
Collection Platform: Satellite Data
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    This Digital Terrain Model (DTM) for Continental Europe was derived using Ensemble Machine Learning (EML) with publicly available Digital Surface Models. EML was trained using GEDI level 2B points (Level 2A; "elev_lowestmode") and ICESat-2 (ATL08; "h_te_mean"). About 9 million points were overlaid vs MERITDEM, AW3D30, GLO-30, EU DEM, GLAD canopy height, tree cover and surface water cover maps. An ensemble prediction model (mlr package in R) was fitted using random forest, Cubist and GLM, and used to predict the most probable terrain height (bare earth).

    The predicted elevations are based on the GEDI data hence the reference water surface (WGS84 ellipsoid) is about 43 m higher than the sea water surface for a specific EU country. Before modeling, reference elevations were corrected to the Earth Gravitational Model 2008 (EGM2008) by using the 5-arcdegree resolution correction surface (Pavlis et al, 2012).

    Details on the work to create this dataset can be found here:

    NOTE:This dataset has been converted from its original units of decimeters to meters to aid comparisons with other datasets in the OpenTopography catalog.



    Dataset Acknowledgement: Hengl, Tomislav, Leal Parente, Leandro, Krizan, Josip, and Bonannella, Carmelo. 2020. “Continental Europe Digital Terrain Model at 30 M Resolution Based on GEDI, Icesat-2, AW3D, GLO-30, EUDEM, MERIT DEM and Background Layers”. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4724549.

    Dataset Citation: Hengl, Tomislav, Leal Parente, Leandro, Krizan, Josip, and Bonannella, Carmelo. 2022. Continental Europe Digital Terrain Model. Distributed by OpenTopography. https://doi.org/10.5069/G99021ZF. Accessed: 2025-04-18       Copied to Clipboard

    Use License: CC BY 4.0

    Dataset Keywords: Europe, MERIT, ALOS, GEDI, ICESat-2, machine learning, DTM

    Survey Date: 01/01/2000 - 12/31/2018

    Publication Date: 09/13/2022
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    Area: 6,337,822 km2
    Raster Resolution: 30 meter

    Coordinate System:
    Horizontal: ETRS89-extended / LAEA Europe [EPSG: 3035]
    Vertical: WGS84 Ellipsoid/EGM2008 [EPSG: 3855]

    Units: meter

    Survey Report: Reports
    Dataset Boundary in GeoJSON format:   EU_DTM.geojson

    Dataset Extent (Bounding Box): North: 71.61735635610398°     South: 27.384132735093623°     East: 34.76662321924094°     West: -31.84411446295448°