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A Digital Elevation Model of Heard Island derived from TerraSAR satellite imagery

Australian Antarctic Data Centre
BROLSMA, HENK ; SMITH, DAVID T.
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This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The data must not be handed to a third party. When the data are no longer required for the designated project, copies of it on any medium, including computers, must be deleted. All publications derived from use of the data must include "copyright Infoterra 2010" or "Includes material copyright Infoterra 2010" as appropriate. The Australian Antarctic Data Centre should also be acknowledged as having provided the data. Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=heard_dem_terrasar when using these data.

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This dataset is a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of Heard Island derived from TerraSAR_X imagery using radargrammetric methods. At least one pair of ascending images and one pair of descending images were used at each location. The TerraSAR_X stereo pairs were acquired between 31 October 2009 and 14 November 2009. The DEM was created by a contractor for the Australian Antarctic Data Centre. It is in geotiff format stored in a UTM zone 43 projection, horizontal datum WGS84. The cell size is 10 metres. Included with the DEM are some auxiliary files and documentation. This includes: 1 an xml file with metadata; 2 a shapefile detailing the images used for each part of the DEM; 3 a geotiff showing the correlation between the images used at each point in the DEM; 4 a spreadsheet with an accuracy assessment of the DEM using ground control points provided by the Australian Antarctic Data Centre.

Issued: 2010-06-04

Data time period: 2009-10-31 to 2009-11-14

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DEM | EARTH SCIENCE | Heard | LAND SURFACE | OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS | SAR > Synthetic Aperture Radar | SATELLITES | TERRAIN ELEVATION | TOPOGRAPHY | TSX > TerraSAR-X | TerraSAR | elevation |

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