This paper describes the effect of DEM data resolution on predictions from the SWAT model. Measured hydrologic, meteorological, watershed characteristics and water quality data from Moores Creek watershed (near Lincoln, AR, USA) were used in the simulation. The effect of input data resolution was evaluated by running seven scenarios at increasing DEM grid sizes (30 ð 30 m, 100 ð 100 m, 150 ð 15...

A new digital elevation model (DEM) is presented for accurate surface representation in photogrammetric processing of stereo ground-based imagery. This model is named the continuative variable resolution DEM (cvrDEM). In contrast to traditional grid-based DEMs that have only one fixed resolution, this new model can provide resolutions that vary depending on the range represented in the groundba...

This paper presents a DEM generation procedure based on optical (SPOT stereo) and radar (InSAR, interferometric SAR) data. The first part of the paper is focused on InSAR. The second one is concerned with the integration of optical and radar data. Two levels of integration are proposed: the SPOT data can support the InSAR procedure (in particular phase unwrapping) and the SPOT and InSAR data ca...

17 Abstract—This study outlines a method for generating an 18 automated micro-landform map of an alluvial plain for 19 further flood hazard assessment by combining Shuttle Radar 20 Topographic Mission Digital Elevation Model (SRTM DEM) 21 and satellite images. Average elevation and channel features 22 extracted from DEM are associated with soil moist condition 23 (thresholds of Modified Normali...

Background: New technologies for terrain reconstruction have increased the availability of topographic data at a broad range of resolutions and spatial extents. The existing digital elevation models (DEMs) can now be updated at a low cost in selected study areas with newer, often higher resolution data using unmanned aerial systems (UAS) or terrestrial sensors. However, differences in spatial c...

The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), scheduled for an 11 day Space Shuttle flight in 1999, will use an Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IFSAR) instrument to produce a near-global digital elevation map of the earth’s land surface with 16 m absolute vertical height accuracy at 30 meter postings. SRTM will achieve the required interferometric baseline by extending a receive-only r...

The Working Group 4 of Commission I on “Geometric and Radiometric Modelling of Optical Spaceborne Sensors” will provide on its website several stereo data sets from high and very high resolution spaceborne stereo sensors. Among these are data from the 2.5 meter class like ALOS-PRISM and Cartosat-1 as well as, in near future, data from the highest resolution sensors (0.5 m class) like GeoEye-1 a...

This paper presents a methodology of image orientation and DEM extraction from ALOS-PRISM stereopairs without the use of GCPs. It uses the approximate geo-location information derived from the sensor navigation instruments and the SRTM-DEM. The method consists in the extraction of a relative DEM, which initially is not correctly geo-referenced. This relative DEM is then matched to the SRTM-DEM,...