A comparison of vertical accuracy of global DEMs and DEMs produced by GEDI, ICESat-2

Omer Gokberk Narin; Mevlut Gullu

doi:10.1007/s12145-023-01060-1

A comparison of vertical accuracy of global DEMs and DEMs produced by GEDI, ICESat-2

Omer Gokberk Narin^*, Mevlut Gullu

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Optical and Laser Remote Sensing

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Abstract

Digital elevation models (DEM) are an essential data source in many professional disciplines, with the help of gridded height information and values such as slope and aspect produced from that information. In this study, Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) and Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) satellite-altimetry data, and SRTM, ASTER-GDEM, and ALOS World3D data were used as Global DEMs (GDEMs) data in three different areas (U.S.A., New Zealand and Puerto Rico). We used kriging methods for interpolation to create the new rasters. Point-based accuracies were compared with the GDEMs from satellite-altimetry systems and raster-based comparisons were made by deriving DEMs with satellite-altimetry data in three different areas. It was seen that the ICESat-2 data in point-based results had similar accuracy with other GDEMs. DEMs produced by using ICESat-2 and GEDI data together gave relatively better results than using alone. In particular, the correlation was found to be highly correlated with 99%.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2693-2707
Number of pages	15
Journal	Earth Science Informatics
Volume	16
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-023-01060-1
Publication status	Published - 2023

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GEDI
Global Digital Elevation Models (GDEMs)
ICESat-2
Satellite-Based LiDAR

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