Topographic data are critical to global changes in climate
land formations
atmospheric changes
and research in soil and water loss.Recently
NASA released SRTM DEM at 90-meter resolution covering 80% of the Earth's land surface.Prior to SRTM DEM
GTOPO30 (1 km) was the highest-resolution global DEM.As it is a new product
we have no knowledge of SRTM DEM
and so
it is necessary to assess its accuracy.The article introduces apparent accuracy and production procedure of SRTM DEM in comparison with GTOPO30.Further-more
the article analyzes and compares these two DEM datasets at 1 km resolution in Tibet.Results show that SRTM DEM has higher accuracy than GTOPO30.This research can be a good reference for applications in other areas.