COPERNICUS Digital Elevation Model (DEM)

The Copernicus DEM is a Digital Surface Model (DSM) which represents the surface of the Earth including buildings, infrastructure and vegetation. We provide two instances of Copernicus DEM named GLO-30 Public and GLO-90. GLO-90 provides worldwide coverage at 90 meters. GLO-30 Public provides limited worldwide coverage at 30 meters because a small subset of tiles covering specific countries are not yet released to the public by the Copernicus Programme. Note that in both cases ocean areas do not have tiles, there one can assume height values equal to zero. Data is provided as Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs.

Two releases (i.e. 2019 and 2020) are currently available for all Copernicus DEM instances with the exception of COP-DEM_GLO-30-DTED_PUBLIC and COP-DEM_GLO-30-DGED_PUBLIC, only available as 2019 release.

A full collection of tiles per each release can be found via FTP and PANDA Catalogue under dataset names marked with “2019_1” and “2020_1”.

The 2020 release has undergone the following improvements with respect to the 2019 release:

- infilling with high resolution DEM over Norway;

- addition of 5 geocells containing missing small islands;

- editing of source raw data;

- correction of minor data/auxiliary files inconsistencies;

- correction of implausible values.

The products impacted by improvements can be identified via a dedicated list: https://spacedata.copernicus.eu/documents/20126/0/COP-DEM_delivery_sheet_v0.7_PUBLIC+%282%29.xlsx/771ce82f-0084-849d-8a34-702c421eacf2?t=1611651454540

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Date ( Publication )
2019-12-01
Identifier
dataset
Status
On going
Point of contact
Copernicus Services Coordinated Interface (SCI), ESA - European Space Agency - ( )

Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Maintenance note
Bulk data delivery in Q4 2019 and Q4 2020. Additional deliveries from Q1 2021 onwards are foreseen to improve specific regions or to support harmonization across the existing datasets.
Keywords ( Theme )
  • elevation
  • earth observation
  • satellite imagery
  • MOOD-H2020
Keywords ( Place )
  • World
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Elevation
Use limitation
according to license
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access
Other constraints

GLO-30 Public and GLO-90 are available on a free basis for the general public under the terms and conditions of the Licence found here: https://spacedata.copernicus.eu/documents/20126/0/CSCDA_ESA_Mission-specific+Annex.pdf

The GLO-90 dataset is available worldwide with a free license. The GLO-30 dataset (dataset ID: COP-DEM_GLO-30-DTED_PUBLIC and COP-DEM_GLO-30-DGED_PUBLIC) is available worldwide with a free license with the exception of two countries, reported in a dedicated list (https://spacedata.copernicus.eu/documents/20126/0/Non-released-tiles_GLO-30_PUBLIC_Dec.xlsx/bcdd6cef-6379-4890-de8f-788daf41dce8?t=1608549440765).

Attribution:

For Primary Products:

"© DLR e.V. (2014-2018) and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH (year of production) provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved."

For Altered Products:

"produced using products © DLR e.V. (2014-2018) and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH (yearofproduction) provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA, all rights reserved”

Any publication whatsoever resulting from work carried out using Primary Products/ Altered Products shall contain the following sentence: “EO data provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA.”

When communicating to the General Public or distributing the Copernicus WorldDEM™-90, the User shall inform the General Public of the source by using the following notice:

"© 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".

Where the Copernicus WorldDEM™-90 data have been adapted or modified, the User shall provide the following notice:

"produced using Copernicus WorldDEM™-90 © 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”.

Aggregation Information

No information provided.
Spatial representation type
Grid
Distance
30 meters
Distance
90 meters
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Description
World
Begin date
2010-01-01
End date
2015-12-31
N
S
E
W
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Reference system identifier
EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) / 8.6
Distribution format
  • GeoTIFF ( )

  • DTED ( )

OnLine resource
https://spacedata.copernicus.eu/web/cscda/dataset-details?articleId=394198 ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
information on download ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

information on download

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
2010-12-08
Other citation details
http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2010/1089/2014-12-31
Explanation
See specified reference
Pass
Yes
Statement
derived from WorldDEM™ infilled on a local basis with the following DEMs: ASTER, SRTM90, SRTM30, SRTM30plus, GMTED2010, TerraSAR-X Radargrammetric DEM, ALOS World 3D-30m.

gmd:MD_Metadata

File identifier
55df6882-8593-4123-b738-3558c20ad98c XML
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2021-10-25T12:25:41
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
Copernicus Services Coordinated Interface (SCI), ESA - European Space Agency -

Point of contact
mundialis GmbH & Co. KG - ( )

Citation proposal


(2019) . COPERNICUS Digital Elevation Model (DEM).
https://data.opendatascience.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/55df6882-8593-4123-b738-3558c20ad98c

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Source: https://spacedata.copernicus.eu/web/cscda/dataset-details?articleId=394198

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