Elevation10

Custom-tailored 10m Elevation Models even in difficult areas

Elevation10 provides reliable and customised elevation modelling independent of relief characteristics and weather conditions.

Digital Terrain Model of a landscape in Columbia

The models are available tailored to the customer’s area of interest starting at a minimum of 500 square kilometres, and up to full regional or even national coverage.

The Digital Surface Model (DSM) includes “first surface” elevations (e.g. vegetation and man-made structures) and can be processed into Digital Terrain Models (DTM), that represent the bare earth elevation (vegetation and man-made objects removed).

Key Benefits

Up to 5 m absolute height accuracy at 10 m grid spacing
Based on HRE Lv1 (DTED level 3) standards
Regional coverage available from a minimum of 500 sq km
Specifications adaptable to customer requirements
Ideal for mapping applications, civil engineering, oil & gas
exploration and development, flood risk modelling and
emergency response

TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X radar satellites in space

TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X in space

The Elevation10 products are based on StripMap stereo pairs (data covering the same area acquired in both ascending and descending orbit directions) acquired by the high-resolution radar satellite TerraSAR-X and processed applying radargrammetry techniques.

As TerraSAR-X features a unique positional accuracy (less than 20 cm), and operates independent of weather conditions and sunlight, the derivation of height information relies on exceptionally solid input data.

Thanks to flexible delivery options customers can adapt the scope of delivery to individual needs by choosing:

To add a set of quality layers,
To add a corresponding orthorectified image (ORI) of the TerraSAR-X StripMap input data.

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