Commercial DEM Providers

Introduction

AW3D30 DSM data at Bahrain. Both controur line representation and gridded data are shown.

This page holds a list of some of the major 3rd party commercial providers of high-resolution and high-quality DEM's. Typically a DEM, DTM or DSM purchased from one of these providers comes with a price-per-square-kilometers price-tag - along with a required minimum purchase area (typically in the order of some hundreds of square kilometers). If data are delivered in a standard GIS format such as geotiff, xyz, surfer-grid or ESRI-shape-files, then the data is easily loaded into the elevation-objects or the line-objecs of windPRO.

Please drop us a line at support@emd.dk if you know of more vendors that you think should be added to the list.

List of 3rd Party Commercial DEM Providers

Below a list of commercial providers of DSM's or DEM's.

Euro-Maps 3D from GAF-AG

GAF-AG provides a verity of DSM models in resolutions from 0.30m to 5.0m (with the Euro-Maps 3D dataset). The Euro-Maps 3D was a part of DEM-elevation study by EMD presented at the Wind Resource workshop in Brussel 2019 - where the map came out with a nice performance on the Norwegian Midtfjellet site (see page 14 in this pdf).

Read more about the Euro-Maps 3D dataset here.

AW3D from NTT-Data and RESTEC

ALOS World 3D (AW3D) is the higher resolution, commercial 'cousin' of the AW3D30 dataset.

Read more about the Euro-Maps 3D dataset here.

WorldDEM from Airbus

World DEM from Airbus is a DEM with global pole-to-pole coverage. It comes with a 12m resolution and its accuracy is specified at 2m (relative) and 4m (absolute). It is possible to purchase both DSM and DTM's from the WorldDEM databases.

DEMs from DHI-GRAS

DHI-Gras is a partner in our joint InnoWind project and is a distributor of many DEM's. As such, DHI-GRAS is able to provide guidance on which DEM is appriate and cost-efficient to use.

Read more on DHI-GRAS offerings here