A high-resolution (10-meter per pixel) digital elevation model (DEM) was created for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta using both bathymetry and topography data. This DEM is the result of collaborative efforts of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the California Department of Water Resources (DWR). The base of the DEM is from a 10-m DEM released in 2004 and updated in 2005 (Foxgrover and others, 2005) that used Environmental Systems Research Institute(ESRI), ArcGIS Topo to Raster module to interpolate grids from single beam bathymetric surveys collected by DWR, the Army Corp of Engineers (COE), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the USGS, into a continuous surface. The Topo to Raster interpolation method was specifically designed to create hydrologically correct DEMs from point, line, and polygon data (Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., 2015). Elevation contour lines were digitized based on the single beam point data for control of chan ...

This product is superseded by version 4.2. See: https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/san-francisco-bay-and-sacramento-san-joaquin-delta-dem-for-modeling-version-4-2

Citation and Main Description:

This product is described in Chapter 5 of the 2018 DWR Delta Modeling Section annual report, produced jointly with USGS.

https://water.ca.gov/-/media/DWR-Website/Web-Pages/Library/Modeling-And-Analysis/Files/Modeling-and-Analysis-PDFs/FINAL6BayDelta39thProgress-Report071918.pdf

Domain and Product

Changes between 4.0 and 4.1 are documented in the change log below and are most pronounced in the Suisun Marsh region and in the incorporation of some improvements in the South Delta.

Changes in version 4 relative to prior products are limited to the region east of the Carquinez Strait (starting around Carquinez Bridge). To facilitate compatibility between products released by DWR and USGS/NOAA partners, DWR distributes the region west of the active work at 10m resolution but does not actively work in this region. The San Pablo Bay boundary of active revision in the present product in a place where its source data matches that of other Bay elevation models, e.g., the 2m seamless high-resolution bathymetric and topographic DEM of San Francisco Bay by USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS) (https://topotools.cr.usgs.gov/coned/sanfrancisco.php ), the 2010 San Francisco Bay DEM by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metaview/page?xml=NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC/MGG/DEM/iso/xml/741.xml&view=getDataView&header=none ) or the prior (version 3) 10m digital elevation model (https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/san-francisco-bay-and-sacramento-san-joaquin-delta-dem-v3 ).The 10m DEM for the Bay-Delta is based on the first on the list, i.e. EROS’ 2m DEM for the Bay

New work reported here was done at 2m resolution, although the improvements have been incorporated into the 10m products as much as possible. Relative to the previous DWR release (https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/san-francisco-bay-and-sacramento-san-joaquin-delta-dem-v3), the 2m DEM product reported here consolidates work at this resolution into a small number of larger surfaces representing approximately one-third of the Delta (link to the Coverage Areas page). Laterally, the 2m models now extend over the levee crest as needed to match well with Delta LiDAR (http://www.atlas.ca.gov/download.html#/casil/imageryBaseMapsLandCover/lidar2009 ), the main terrestrial source of data used in this work. The 10m product (link to the Coverage Areas page) is based on the updated USGS DEM (https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/58599681e4b01224f329b484 ). In places where updated 2m models overlap the 10 meters, the 10m base elevation model was updated by resampling the new 2m model and adding levee enforcement. At the border between the 2m and 10m models, the two resolutions were locally edge-matched over a small region to maintain smoothness. For more information, please refer to the report: A Revised Continuous Surface Elevation Model for Modeling (link to Chapter 5 in the 2018 Delta Modeling Section Annual Report (https://water.ca.gov/-/media/DWR-Website/Web-Pages/Library/Modeling-And-Analysis/Files/Modeling-and-Analysis-PDFs/FINAL6BayDelta39thProgress-Report071918.pdf). Please note that by agreement with our data providers we distribute only our own integrated maps, not the original source point data. (https://water.ca.gov/-/media/DWR-Website/Web-Pages/Library/Modeling-And-Analysis/Files/Modeling-and-Analysis-PDFs/FINAL6BayDelta39thProgress-Report071918.pdf

Version: 4.1

• Time Completed: December 2018
• Horizontal Datum: NAD83
• Spheroid:GRS1980
• Projection:UTM_Zone_10N (meters)
• Vertical Datum:NAVD88 (meters)

Data Sources

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Coverage Areas

https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/san-francisco-bay-and-sacramento-san-joaquin-delta-dem-for-modeling-version-4/resource/2e3f2b6e-9f0d-4719-b32a-dff449be18af

Changes since 4.0

• correct the year of survey for COE single-beam (OBJECTID 25) from 1988 to 1988
• update 2m DEM for Montezuma Slough based on newly connected multibean data by NCRO (August 2018 for Montezuma Slough and Hunter Cut)
• cut the portion of DEM for Calaveras from v3 2m San Joaquin River (dem_calaveras_river_2m_20120902
• Changes only occurs in part 1 of "dem_north_delta_2m_v4_20171220" (v4 final): 1.apply patch at the intersection of Sacramento River and Feather River; 2.add Fremont Weir from the 2m Yolo DEM
• The following modifications are applied to "dem_yolo_merge3_mod_20161202" (v4 final; D:\dem_list_review\yolo_bypass):
• Improved merge with Sacramento River on the north:
• Improved merge with 2m Shag/Stairstep dem (dem_shag_stairstep_toe_drain_2m_v4_beta_20150518.tif ) which goes beyond multibeam data, derived based on mixed single-beam datasets using GAM
• Improved patching and compatibility with USGS 10m release
• Create 2m DEM for the Old River between SWP/CVP to Five points based on new bathymetry data collected in June 2018
• Add the newly developed 2m Montazuma Slough DEM as part of v4 release. Update 10m Delta DEM to be consistent with this addition and update data source polygon accordingly.
• Create 2m DEM for the Old River near Coney Island based on new bathymetry data collected in June 2018
• Incorporate modifications done for Yolo and North Delta into 10m DEM for Delta and Bay-Delta.
• The 20181120 version of the 2m South Delta DEM missed a small region that is included in the old version
• Add LiDAR to Shag Slough in 2m Yolo DEM (dem_yolo_2m_20181012), The existing DEM for Shag Slough did not extend sufficiently over banks.

This dataset provides an updated digital elevation model (DEM) for the Atchafalaya and Terrebonne basins in coastal Louisiana, USA. The DEM is updated from the Pre-Delta-X DEM and extended to the full Delta-X study area. This DEM was developed from multiple data sources, including sonar data collected during Pre-Delta-X and Delta-X campaigns, bathymetric data from the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority System-Wide Assessment and Monitoring System (CPRA SWAMP), and NOAA, and topography from the National Elevation Dataset and LiDAR from US Geological Survey (USGS). The provided data layers include the DEM, a binary water/land mask, data source flags, and eight layers with analysis weighting factors for each pixel. Elevation values are provided in meters with respect to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88). The weighting factors indicate how each data source contributed to this multisource DEM. The data are provided in cloud-optimized GeoTIFF (CoG) format.

Coastal elevation data are essential for a wide variety of applications, such as coastal management, flood modelling, and adaptation planning. Low-lying coastal areas (found below 10 m +Mean Sea Level (MSL)) are at risk of future extreme water levels due to Sea Level Rise (SLR), subsidence and changing extreme weather patterns. However, current freely available elevation data sets are not sufficiently accurate to model these risks. We present DeltaDTM, a global coastal Digital Terrain Model (DTM) available in the public domain, with a horizontal spatial resolution of 30 m and a vertical mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.43 m overall. DeltaDTM corrects the CopernicusDEM with space borne lidar from the ICESat-2 and GEDI missions. Specifically, we correct the elevation bias in CopernicusDEM, apply filters to remove non-terrain cells, and fill the gaps using interpolation. Notably, our classification approach produces more accurate results than regression methods (including machine learning) recently used by others to correct DEMs, that achieve an overall MAE of 0.72 m at best. We conclude that DeltaDTM will be a valuable resource for coastal flood impact modelling and other applications.

This Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of the Vietnamese part of the Mekong delta was interpolated using almost 20.000 elevation points derived from a national topographical map of 2014 (scale 1:200,000). The elevation data is vertically referenced to the Vietnam's geodetic Hon Dau datum, which has its elevation origin at mean sea level (MSL) of the Hon Dau tide gauge. The DEM was interpolated from the topographical elevation points using empirical Bayesian kriging employing empirical data transformation and an exponential model. Elevation points with elevations higher than +10m, located on elevated bedrock outcrops were excluded from the interpolation. Rivers and bedrock outcrops were clipped from the final DEM. For more details on the elevation data, the interpolation procedure and data processing steps, see the corresponding paper and supplementary information. […]

These data were created as part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office for Coastal Management's efforts to create an online mapping viewer called the Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts Viewer. It depicts potential sea level rise and its associated impacts on the nation's coastal areas. The purpose of the mapping viewer is to provide coastal managers and scientists with a preliminary look at sea level rise and coastal flooding impacts. The viewer is a screening-level tool that uses nationally consistent data sets and analyses. Data and maps provided can be used at several scales to help gauge trends and prioritize actions for different scenarios. The Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts Viewer may be accessed at: https://coast.noaa.gov/slr. This metadata record describes the Louisiana Central East digital elevation model (DEM), which is a part of a series of DEMs produced for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office for Coastal Management's Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts Viewer described above. This DEM includes the best available lidar known to exist at the time of DEM creation that met project specifications. This DEM includes data for Ascension, Assumption, Iberville, Lafourche, St. James, Terrebonne, and West Baton Rouge Parishes. The DEM was produced from the following lidar data sets: 1. 2017 Upper Delta Plain LA Lidar 2. 2015 South Terrebonne Lidar 3. 2012 - 2013 USGS Louisiana Lidar: Atchafalaya Basin 4. 2013 USGS Louisiana Barataria Lidar 5. 2006 LA Statewide Lidar The DEM is referenced vertically to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88, Geoid12B) with vertical units of meters and horizontally to the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83). The resolution of the DEM is approximately 3 meters.

Dataset Description: The CA Central Valley Lidar 2016 D16 Mod 002: CA Sacramento Delta Lidar 2017 D16 lidar project called for the planning, acquisition, processing, and production of derivative products of lidar data to be collected at a nominal pulse spacing (NPS) of 0.35 meters. Project specifications were based on the U.S. Geological Survey National Geospatial Program Base Lidar Specificati...

This metadata describes a digital elevation model (DEM) created from bathymetric and topographic data collected between 2004 and 2019 in the Cache Slough Complex (CSC), northern Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California. We merged the newly collected bathymetric and topographic data presented in this data release (DOI:10.5066/P9AQSRVH) with 2019 surveys by the California Department of Water Resources (DWR), 2017 USGS Sacramento Delta Lidar, and 2004 bathymetry data from the Army Corp of Engineers. Small gaps of missing data were filled with existing DWR/USGS Delta DEMs to produce a seamless DEM of the Cache Slough Complex with a grid resolution of 1 m. Remaining gaps in the DEM are areas where there is currently no available data.

Citation and Main Description: This product is described in Chapter 5 of the 2018 DWR Delta Modeling Section annual report, produced jointly with USGS. https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/methodology-for-flow-and-salinity-estimates-in-the-sacramento-san-joaquin-delta-and-suisun-marsh/resource/84d4fd29-c839-4efa-82be-b58f7ed176db as well as in ESA. Delta Bathymetry Digital Elevation Model Update Project: Technical Report. California Department of Water Resources, 2024 (Draft) Available upon request # Domain and Product This product is a mutually compatible suite of DEMs covering most of the aquatic and terrestrial areas of the Bay-Delta. The product was derived from original point data collections, lidar and other DEMs. Also included in the resources are images and shapefiles describing the source data. Changes between 4.2 and 4.3 are documented in the change log below. Changes before that are recorded on the 4.2 web page. Changes in version 4 relative to prior products are limited to the region east of the Carquinez Strait (starting around Carquinez Bridge). To facilitate compatibility between products released by DWR and USGS/NOAA partners, DWR distributes the region west of the active work at 10m resolution but does not actively work in this region. The San Pablo Bay boundary of active revision in the present product in a place where its source data matches that of other Bay elevation models, e.g., the 2m seamless high-resolution bathymetric and topographic DEM of San Francisco Bay by USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS) (https://topotools.cr.usgs.gov/coned/sanfrancisco.php ), the 2010 San Francisco Bay DEM by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metaview/page?xml=NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC/MGG/DEM/iso/xml/741.xml&view=getDataView&header=none ) or the prior (version 3) 10m digital elevation model (https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/san-francisco-bay-and-sacramento-san-joaquin-delta-dem-v3 ).The 10m DEM for the Bay-Delta is based on the first on the list, i.e. EROS’ 2m DEM for the Bay # Version: 4.3 * Time Completed: March 2025 * Horizontal Datum: NAD83 * Spheroid:GRS1980 * Projection:UTM_Zone_10N (meters) * Vertical Datum:NAVD88 (meters) # Changes since 4.2 * Develop 2m DEM for the entirety of the South Delta based on new bathymetric surveys collected between 2021-2022 (DWR, NCRO and Cinquini & Passarino Inc) and 2017 Lidar (DWR) * Develop 2m DEM of the entirety of the South Delta, including all available terrestrial data that covers the islands into a seamless tile * Develop 2m DEM of Woodward Cut based on the 2017 Bathymetry Survey (DWR, NCRO) and 2017 LiDAR (DWR) * Develop 2m DEM of Railroad Cut based on the 2017 Bathymetry Survey (DWR, NCRO) and 2017 LiDAR (DWR) * Minor modification to existing dem_montezuma_sl_2m_20200909.tif : fix alignment problem. * clip dem_ccfb_south_delta_san_joaquin_rvr_2m_20200625.tif to remove areas that are superseded by the dem_south_delta_2m_20231103.tif. Now called dem_omr_sjr_2m_20200625.tif

Product: These are Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data. Class 2 (ground) lidar points in conjunction with the hydro breaklines were used to create a 1 meter hydro-flattened Raster DEM. Geographic Extent: Upper Delta Plain, Louisiana, covering approximately 3843 square miles. Dataset Description: This Upper Delta Plain QL2 Lidar project called for the planning, acquisition, processing, and der...

This dataset provides an updated digital elevation model (DEM) for the Atchafalaya and Terrebonne basins in coastal Louisiana, USA. The DEM is updated from the Pre-Delta-X DEM and extended to the full Delta-X study area. This DEM was developed from multiple data sources, including sonar data collected during Pre-Delta-X and Delta-X campaigns, bathymetric data from the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority System-Wide Assessment and Monitoring System (CPRA SWAMP), and NOAA, and topography from the National Elevation Dataset and LiDAR from US Geological Survey (USGS). The provided data layers include the DEM, a binary water/land mask, data source flags, and eight layers with analysis weighting factors for each pixel. Elevation values are provided in meters with respect to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88). The weighting factors indicate how each data source contributed to this multisource DEM. The data are provided in cloud-optimized GeoTIFF (CoG) format.

This dataset is a digital elevation model (DEM) derived from LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) point cloud data of the coastal tidal parts of Skagit and Snohomish Counties in WA State. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office for Coastal Management contracted with Tetra Tech to acquire and process airborne LiDAR over an area of about 186 square miles. Data was to be acquired within a 2 hour window of low tide. Deliverables included classified LiDAR point clouds, breaklines and digital elevation models (DEM). LiDAR data was acquired on 13 and 14 of August 2019. The coastal area was covered in one flight on 8/14 while the inland area was covered on 8/13. The coastal flight took place on 8/14 with a tide window between -0.7 and +0.5 foot. For the airborne LiDAR flight Tetra Tech subcontracted with Eagle Mapping. The data was acquired with a Riegl LMS VQ780i sensor. A ground control survey was conducted to collect calibration points and check points. For the aerial acquisition Tetra Tech contracted with Eagle Mapping. For the ground survey, Tetra Tech contracted with Compass Data. The LiDAR data and derivative products were to be based on the USGS LiDAR Base Specifications. The coordinate reference system is UTM Zone 10N meters, NAD83(2011). The vertical datum is NAVD88 with Geoid12B.

Superseded https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/san-francisco-bay-and-sacramento-san-joaquin-delta-dem-for-modeling-version-4-1## A more recent version of this product appears here: This product will continue to be distributed for archival purposes. ##Domain and Product Changes in the current bathymetry release (version 4) are limited to the region east of the Carquinez Strait (starting around Carquinez Bridge). To facilitate compatibility released by us and our partners, DWR distribute the region west as a separate companion tile and delineate the boundary of active revision in the present product in a place where its source data matches that of other Bay elevation models, e.g., the 2m seamless high-resolution bathymetric and topographic DEM of San Francisco Bay by USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS) (https://topotools.cr.usgs.gov/coned/sanfrancisco.php ), the 2010 San Francisco Bay DEM by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metaview/page?xml=NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC/MGG/DEM/iso/xml/741.xml&view=getDataView&header=none ) or the prior (version 3) 10m digital elevation model (https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/san-francisco-bay-and-sacramento-san-joaquin-delta-dem-v3 ).The 10m DEM for the Bay-Delta is based on the first on the list, i.e. EROS’ 2m DEM for the Bay New work reported here was done at 2m resolution, although the improvements have been incorporated into the 10m products as much as possible. Relative to the previous DWR release (https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/san-francisco-bay-and-sacramento-san-joaquin-delta-dem-v3), the 2m DEM product reported here consolidates work at this resolution into a small number of larger surfaces representing approximately one-third of the Delta (link to the Coverage Areas page). Laterally, the 2m models now extend over the levee crest as needed to match well with Delta LiDAR (http://www.atlas.ca.gov/download.html#/casil/imageryBaseMapsLandCover/lidar2009 ), the main terrestrial source of data used in this work. The 10m product (link to the Coverage Areas page) is based on the updated USGS DEM (https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/58599681e4b01224f329b484 ). In places where updated 2m models overlap the 10 meters, the 10m base elevation model was updated by resampling the new 2m model and adding levee enforcement. At the border between the 2m and 10m models, the two resolutions were locally edge-matched over a small region to maintain smoothness. For more information, please refer to the article: A Revised Continuous Surface Elevation Model for Modeling (link to Chapter 5 in the 2018 Annual Report). Please note that by agreement with our data providers we distribute only our own integrated maps, not the original source point data.

Superseded

https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/san-francisco-bay-and-sacramento-san-joaquin-delta-dem-for-modeling-version-4-1## A more recent version of this product appears here:

This product will continue to be distributed for archival purposes.

Domain and Product

Changes in the current bathymetry release (version 4) are limited to the region east of the Carquinez Strait (starting around Carquinez Bridge). To facilitate compatibility released by us and our partners, DWR distribute the region west as a separate companion tile and delineate the boundary of active revision in the present product in a place where its source data matches that of other Bay elevation models, e.g., the 2m seamless high-resolution bathymetric and topographic DEM of San Francisco Bay by USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS) (https://topotools.cr.usgs.gov/coned/sanfrancisco.php ), the 2010 San Francisco Bay DEM by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metaview/page?xml=NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC/MGG/DEM/iso/xml/741.xml&view=getDataView&header=none ) or the prior (version 3) 10m digital elevation model (https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/san-francisco-bay-and-sacramento-san-joaquin-delta-dem-v3 ).The 10m DEM for the Bay-Delta is based on the first on the list, i.e. EROS’ 2m DEM for the Bay

New work reported here was done at 2m resolution, although the improvements have been incorporated into the 10m products as much as possible. Relative to the previous DWR release (https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/san-francisco-bay-and-sacramento-san-joaquin-delta-dem-v3), the 2m DEM product reported here consolidates work at this resolution into a small number of larger surfaces representing approximately one-third of the Delta (link to the Coverage Areas page). Laterally, the 2m models now extend over the levee crest as needed to match well with Delta LiDAR (http://www.atlas.ca.gov/download.html#/casil/imageryBaseMapsLandCover/lidar2009 ), the main terrestrial source of data used in this work. The 10m product (link to the Coverage Areas page) is based on the updated USGS DEM (https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/58599681e4b01224f329b484 ). In places where updated 2m models overlap the 10 meters, the 10m base elevation model was updated by resampling the new 2m model and adding levee enforcement. At the border between the 2m and 10m models, the two resolutions were locally edge-matched over a small region to maintain smoothness. For more information, please refer to the article: A Revised Continuous Surface Elevation Model for Modeling (link to Chapter 5 in the 2018 Annual Report).

Please note that by agreement with our data providers we distribute only our own integrated maps, not the original source point data.

Data Sources

https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/san-francisco-bay-and-sacramento-san-joaquin-delta-dem-for-modeling-version-4/resource/981a57b5-e16f-4632-b7e0-4a533534a79c

Coverage Areas

https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/san-francisco-bay-and-sacramento-san-joaquin-delta-dem-for-modeling-version-4/resource/2e3f2b6e-9f0d-4719-b32a-dff449be18af

This metadata describes a digital elevation model (DEM) created from bathymetric and topographic data collected between 2017 and 2019 in the Sacramento River Deep Water Ship Channel (DWSC), northern Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California. We merged the newly collected bathymetric and topographic data presented in this data release (DOI:10.5066/P9AQSRVH) with 2019 surveys by the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) and 2017 USGS Sacramento Delta Lidar, to produce a seamless digital elevation model of the DWSC at a grid resolution of 1 m.

This product is a digital elevation model (DEM) for the Little Holland Tract in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, California based on U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)-collected elevation data, merged with existing topographic and bathymetric elevation data. The USGS collected topographic and bathymetric elevation data in 2015, using a combination of methods. Topographic and shallow-water bathymetric data were collected on foot using a global positioning system (GPS) backpack platform that consisted of survey-grade Trimble R10, and Trimble R7 global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers with Zephyr 2 antennas. Bathymetric data were collected using a personal watercraft (PWC) platform that consisted of Trimble R7 GNSS receivers with Zephyr 2 antennas, combined with Odom Echotrac CV-100 single-beam echosounders and 200 kHz transducers. The USGS elevation data were merged with topographic aerial Light Detection and Ranging (lidar) data collected by California Department of Water Resources (DWR) in 2007 and single-beam bathymetric data collected by Environmental Data Solutions (EDS) in 2009 to generate the final DEM. The GeoTIFF raster and comma-delimited text files are available for download at http://doi.org/10.5066/F7RX9954.

Title:

Local digital elevation model for the Ayeyarwady Delta in Myanmar (AD-DEM) derived from digitised spot and contour heights of topographic maps

Citation:

Seeger, K.; Minderhoud, P. S. J., Peffeköver, A., Vogel, A., Brückner, H., Kraas, F., Nay Win Oo, Brill, D. (2023): Local digital elevation model for the Ayeyarwady Delta in Myanmar (AD-DEM) derived from digitised spot and contour heights of topographic maps. Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7875965.

Supplement to:

Seeger, K., Minderhoud, P. S. J., Peffeköver, A., Vogel, A., Brückner, H., Kraas, F., Nay Win Oo, and Brill, D. (2023): Assessing land elevation in the Ayeyarwady Delta (Myanmar) and its relevance for studying sea level rise and delta flooding. EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-1425.

Abstract:

The local digital elevation model (DEM) of the Ayeyarwady Delta, referred to as AD-DEM, was generated based on elevation data of topographic maps at scale of 1:50,000 published in 2014 while source data was compiled between 2000 and 2004. Empirical Bayesian Kriging with empirical data transformation and exponential modelling was applied to interpolate ~5100 elevation points (spot heights) and ~13600 elevation points extracted from contour data of the topographic maps. Elevation values higher than 10 m were excluded from interpolation and the SRTM water body mask created in 2000 was applied to the processed AD-DEM. The AD-DEM was transformed from its original vertical reference of local mean sea level at Kyaikkhami tide gauge to continuous mean sea level based on the mean dynamic topography data (CNES-CLS18 dataset of Mulet et al. (2021; https://doi.org/10.5194/os-17-789-2021) that we transposed to EGM96) in order to account for sea level variations along the Myanmar coast.

The AD-DEM contains itself some uncertainty due to the lack of evenly distributed spot heights in areas of the upper delta, for which a separate shapefile is provided. However, we highlight to consider the AD-DEM as being the currently best available model against the background of the lacking possibility of ground truthing and being independent from satellite-based measurements.

For further information on data processing, including DEM interpolation, determination of local mean sea level and vertical datum conversions, as well as DEM performance, see the corresponding paper and supplementary material.

File name: ADDEM_Con250m_lesseq10_MDT_AD_MMR2000_masked_maskedSRTM.tif

File format: GEOTIFF file

Spatial reference: MMR2000_46N

Vertical reference: local continuous mean sea level, i.e., mean dynamic topography (CNES-CLS18 dataset of Mulet et al. (2021; https://doi.org/10.5194/os-17-789-2021) transposed to EGM96

Cell size: 750 × 750 m

File name: DataPoorAreas_MMR2000.shp

File format: ESRI Shapefile

Spatial reference: MMR2000_46N

Superseded:

A more recent version of this product appears here:

https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/san-francisco-bay-and-sacramento-san-joaquin-delta-dem-for-modeling-version-4-1

This product will continue to be distributed for archival purposes.

Product

The product is a set of mutually consistent 10m and 2m integrated elevation maps (DEM) in standard ascii format.There are few missing data where there is water or at land-water interfaces. However, our map does have gaps at some inland and island sites. We have opted not to fill these because there is an ongoing project at DWR to re-analyze LiDAR returns and improve the terrestrial map. The CSTARS project at UC Davis is doing this as well.

This product is developed based on synthesizing LiDAR, single- and multibeam sonar soundings and existing integrated maps collated from multiple sources. The following figure shows the data sources used for different areas. The western part of our Bay-Delta work blends the original Foxgrover map with the 1/3 arc second DEM produced by NOAA. These are close in the region of overlap and edge-matches the NOAA data well, but the NOAA map seems to capture things like bridge footings that the original 10m Foxgrover map of the region smooths. A richer 2m product combining new data and some interpolation is due to be release by USGS in Winter or Spring 2013. Our previews of this map indicate that it is heavily based on the 1/3 arc second NOAA map for points near Carquinez Straits. For more information, please refer to the article: A Continuous Surface Elevation Map

Please note that we distribute only our own integrated maps, not the original constituent data.

Data Sources

https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/san-francisco-bay-and-sacramento-san-joaquin-delta-dem-v3/resource/36a1a7b0-895e-4b10-bc78-1962f523fb05

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https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/san-francisco-bay-and-sacramento-san-joaquin-delta-dem-v3/resource/9e7c5963-ba33-4b3d-91a9-5e45671faad4

This part of the data release presents a digital elevation model (DEM) derived from bathymetry and topography data of the Elwha River delta collected in February 2016. Two dams on the Elwha River, Washington State, USA trapped over 20 million m3 of sediment, reducing downstream sediment fluxes and contributing to erosion of the river's coastal delta. The removal of the Elwha and Glines Canyon dams between 2011 and 2014 induced massive increases in river sediment supply and provided an unprecedented opportunity to examine the response of a delta system to changes in sediment supply. The U.S. Geological Survey developed an integrated research program aimed at understanding the ecosystem responses following dam removal that included regular monitoring of coastal and nearshore bathymetry and topography. As part of this monitoring program, the USGS conducted a bathymetric and topographic survey in the Strait of Juan de Fuca on the Elwha River delta, Washington (USGS Field Activity Number 2016-608-FA). Bathymetry data were collected using two personal watercraft (PWCs) and a kayak, each equipped with single beam echosounders and survey-grade global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). Topography data were collected on foot with GNSS receivers mounted on backpacks. DEM surfaces were produced from all available elevation data using linear interpolation.

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