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Yusra Al-husban
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DOI:10.17265/2159-581X/2017.04.004
SRTM DEM (shuttle radar topographic mission digital elevation model) and ASTEMR DEM (advanced space-borne thermal emission and reflection radiometer digital elevation model) are now freely available in two resolutions: 90 m and 30 m. DEM is a computerized representation of the Earth’s relief, and is used in many applications such as hydrology, climatology, geomorphology and ecology. There are some important differences in assessing the accuracy of digital elevation models for specific applications. The purpose of this study is to investigate the errors in digital elevation models obtained globally from DEMs 90 m, 30 m ground resolution, and the extracted DEM from a topographic map by digitized contour lines of 1:50,000 scale in a rugged mountainous region and a heterogeneous landscape, using KS (kernel smoothing) interpolation method. For validation purposes, datasets of 250-GCPs (ground control points) distributed over the study area were used to evaluate and compare the accuracy of the two global Dems and the DEM extracted from TM. The main results showed that the 30 m resolution global (DEM) is the most accurate one among the three. According to the validation results, SRTM with maximum (+) and minimum (-) error elevation is -10_9. M, with mean deviation of KS is -0.00238667, and RMS (root-mean-square) error of 0.98, and currently the most accurate model is 30 m DEM of the study area with no significant differences compared with DEM 90 m.
DEM, accuracy assessment, GPS (global position system), GCP, topographic map, KS.