Comparison of SRTM and ASTER Derived Digital Elevation Models over Two Regions in Ghana - Implications for Hydrological and Environmental Modeling

A Digital Elevation Model (DEM) refers to a quantitative model of a part of the earth’s surface in digital form (Burrough and McDonnell, 1998). A DEM consists of either (1) a twodimensional array of numbers that represents the spatial distribution of elevations on a regular grid; (2) a set of x, y, and z coordinates for an irregular network of points; or (3) contour strings stored in the form of x, y coordinate pairs along each contour line of specified elevation (Walker and Willgoose, 1999). Though there are some disadvantages (Gao, 1997), regular grid DEMs are nowadays the most popular due to their computational efficiency. The use of DEM in this paper, therefore, refers to a regular gridded DEM.

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