Quality Assessment Report Evaluates Polar Geospatial Center EarthDEM Elevation Products
A new quality assessment report from NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program evaluates data from the Polar Geospatial Center’s (PGC) EarthDEM product. The results of the evaluation help inform NASA program management and the user community about the quality of commercial Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) for use in NASA science. At left, the cover of the Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition programs’s recently released Polar Geospatial Center EarthDEM Quality Assessment Report. At right, a shaded relief rendering of EarthDEM data showing the Virgin River in Nevada. DEM derived from Vantor imagery. Credit: NASA CSDA program/EarthDEM Project Issued August 8, 2026, the CSDA Polar Geospatial Center EarthDEM Quality Assessment Report was conducted by NASA Digital Elevation Model (DEM) subject matter experts (SMEs) enlisted to evaluate the horizontal and vertical accuracy of two PGC EarthDEM 1 (i.e., Digital Elevation Model) products: the center’s “Mosaic Til...
