DEMIX 10k Tile Data Set

This dataset of tiles, nominally 10x10 km in size on a geographic grid, supports the work of the Digital Elevation Model Intercomparison eXperiment (DEMIX) working group (Strobl and others, 2021; Guth and others, 2021; ; Bielski and others, work in progress).  This data set provides a technical description, naming convention, and GIS data sets in shapefile and geopackage formats. The tiles have a constant latitudinal spacing of 6 arc minutes, and increase the longitudinal spacing toward the poles to approximate a constant area for the tiles. The DEMIX tile system provides a global tessellation at a scale fine enough to produce locally significant results, coarse enough to keep the total number of tiles manageable, and equal enough in size to allow for statistical aggregation and comparative analysis.

To understand the use of the database, see the preprint (Bielski and others, 2023).

References:

Bielski, C.; López-Vázquez, C.; Guth. P.L.; Grohmann, C.H. and the TMSG DEMIX Working Group, 2023. DEMIX Wine Contest Method Ranks ALOS AW3D30, COPDEM, and FABDEM as Top 1” Global DEMs: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.08425.pdf

Guth, P.L.; Van Niekerk, A.; Grohmann, C.H.; Muller, J.-P.; Hawker, L.; Florinsky, I.V.; Gesch, D.; Reuter, H.I.; Herrera-Cruz, V.; Riazanoff, S.; López-Vázquez, C.; Carabajal, C.C.; Albinet, C.; Strobl, P. Digital Elevation Models: Terminology and Definitions. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 3581. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13183581

Strobl, P.A.; Bielski, C.; Guth, P.L.; Grohmann, C.H.; Muller, J.P.; López-Vázquez, C.; Gesch, D.B.; Amatulli, G.; Riazanoff, S.; Carabajal, C. The Digital Elevation Model Intercomparison eXperiment DEMIX, a community based approach at global DEM benchmarking. Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spat. Inf. Sci. 2021, XLIII-B4-2021, 395–400. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B4-2021-395-2021