DEM products citations#

Topography attributes in RGI 7.0 are computed from a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) reprojected onto a locally defined grid for each glacier. If you need to refer the topography products used by RGI 7.0, follow these guidelines.

COPDEM90#

Copernicus DEM GLO-90

  • Original resolution: 3 arc seconds (~90m)

  • Date of acquisition: 2010-2015

  • Date range: 2010-2015

Credit

The GLO-90 dataset is available worldwide with a free license.

Full licences are available here.

ESA – EU users who use the Copernicus DEM in their research are requested to use the following DOI when citing the data source in their publications: https://doi.org/10.5270/ESA-c5d3d65

COPDEM30#

Copernicus DEM GLO-30

  • Original resolution: 1 arc seconds (~30m)

  • Date of acquisition: 2010-2015

  • Date range: 2010-2015

Credit

The GLO-30 dataset is available worldwide with a free license with the exception of two countries (Armenia and Azerbaijan).

Full licences are available here.

ESA – EU users who use the Copernicus DEM in their research are requested to use the following DOI when citing the data source in their publications: https://doi.org/10.5270/ESA-c5d3d65

TANDEM#

TanDEM-X 90m

  • Original resolution: 90m

  • Date of acquisition: December 2010 - January 2015

  • Date range: 2011-2014

Data rights

In publications based on the TanDEM-X 90m DEM the User undertakes to clearly mark all data in such a way that the authorship and copyright of DLR is comprehensible to all: “© DLR ”. Derived information must include a reference to the TanDEM-X 90m DEM as data source, regardless of the form in which it was created.

Data citation

Citation of one of the two listed papers is adequate if you use the TanDEM-X

Wessel, B., Huber, M., Wohlfart, C., Marschalk, U., Kosmann, D., Roth, A. (2018): Accuracy Assessment of the Global TanDEM-X Digital Elevation Model with GPS Data., ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Vol. 139, pp. 171-182.

Rizzoli, P., Martone, M., Gonzalez, C., Wecklich, C., Borla Tridon, D., Bräutigam, B., Bachmann, M., Schulze, D., Fritz, T., Huber, M., Wessel, B., Krieger, G., Zink, M., and Moreira, A. (2017): Generation and performance assessment of the global TanDEM-X digital elevation model. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vol 132, pp. 119-139.

ASTER#

ASTGTMV3

  • Original Resolution: 1 arc second (~30m at the equator)

  • Date of acquisition: 2000 - 2013

  • Date range: 2000-2013

Data citation

NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Spacesystems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (2019). ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003 [Data set]. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. Accessed 2023-05-20 from https://doi.org/10.5067/ASTER/ASTGTM.003

RAMP#

RAMP V2

  • Original resolution: 200m

  • Date of acquisition: 1940-1999 (mostly 1980s and 1990s)

  • Date range: 1980-1990

Downloaded by F. Maussion from http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0082 on 28.03.2018

Data citation

As a condition of using these data, you must cite the use of this data set using the following citation:

Liu, H., K. C. Jezek, B. Li, and Z. Zhao. 2015. Radarsat Antarctic Mapping Project Digital Elevation Model, Version 2. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. doi: https://doi.org/10.5067/8JKNEW6BFRVD. [28.03.2018].

DEM3#

VIEWFINDER PANORAMAS DEMs

  • Original resolution: 3 arcsec (~90m)

  • Date of acquisition: Depending on original source

These data are downloaded from Jonathan de Ferranti’s webpage: http://viewfinderpanoramas.org/dem3.html

Data citation

There is no recommended citation for these data. Please refer to the website above in case of doubt.