COPERNICUS Digital Elevation Model (DEM) for Europe at 30 meter resolution (EU-LAEA) derived from Copernicus Global 30 meter dataset

The Copernicus DEM is a Digital Surface Model (DSM) which represents the surface of the Earth including buildings, infrastructure and vegetation. The original GLO-30 provides worldwide coverage at 30 meters (refers to 10 arc seconds). Note that ocean areas do not have tiles, there one can assume height values equal to zero. Data is provided as Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs. Note that the vertical unit for measurement of elevation height is meters.

The Copernicus DEM for Europe at 30 meter resolution (EU-LAEA projection) in COG format has been derived from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30, mirrored on Open Data on AWS, dataset managed by Sinergise (https://registry.opendata.aws/copernicus-dem/).

Processing steps:

The original Copernicus GLO-30 DEM contains a relevant percentage of tiles with non-square pixels. We created a mosaic map in https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/vrt.html format and defined within the VRT file the rule to apply cubic resampling while reading the data, i.e. importing them into GRASS GIS for further processing. We chose cubic instead of bilinear resampling since the height-width ratio of non-square pixels is up to 1:5. Hence, artefacts between adjacent tiles in rugged terrain could be minimized:

gdalbuildvrt -input_file_list list_geotiffs_MOOD.csv -r cubic -tr 0.000277777777777778 0.000277777777777778 Copernicus_DSM_30m_MOOD.vrt

In order to reproject the data to EU-LAEA projection, bilinear resampling was performed in GRASS GIS (using r.proj) and the pixel values were scaled with 1000 (storing the pixels as Integer values) for data volume reduction.

In addition, a hillshade raster map was derived from the resampled elevation map (using r.relief, GRASS GIS).

Eventually, we exported the elevation and hillshade raster maps in Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) format, along with SLD and QML style files.

Note that GLO-30 Public provides limited 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 ocean areas do not have tiles, there one can assume height values equal to zero. Data is provided as Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs.

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Date ( Publication )
2022-05-20
Identifier
dataset
Status
On going
Point of contact
mundialis GmbH & Co. KG - ( )

Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords ( Theme )
  • elevation
  • earth observation
  • satellite imagery
  • MOOD-H2020
Keywords ( Place )
  • Europe
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Elevation
Use limitation
None
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Use constraints
License
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Creative Commons Namensnennung - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 International (CC-BY-SA 4.0)
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EO data provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA. For more information see: https://data.mundialis.de/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/55df6882-8593-4123-b738-3558c20ad98c
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Distance
30 meters
Metadata language
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Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Description
Europe
Begin date
2010-01-01
End date
2015-12-31
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Unique resource identifier
EPSG:3035
Distribution format
  • Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF ( )

OnLine resource
Copernicus DEM 30m for Europe ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

data available on request

OnLine resource
Copernicus DEM 30m Hillshade for Europe ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

data available on request

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 Copernicus DEM GLO-30 Public

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Hierarchy level
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Date stamp
2022-06-07T19:15:17
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
mundialis GmbH & Co. KG - ( )

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(2022) . COPERNICUS Digital Elevation Model (DEM) for Europe at 30 meter resolution (EU-LAEA) derived from Copernicus Global 30 meter dataset.
https://data.opendatascience.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/9a382836-47a9-4dac-ad62-f0021e455ab8

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