Canadian Digital Elevation Model, 1945-2011
This collection is a legacy product that is no longer supported. It may not meet current government standards.
The Canadian Digital Elevation Model (CDEM) is part of Natural Resources Canada's altimetry system designed to better meet the users' needs for elevation data and products.
The CDEM stems from the existing Canadian Digital Elevation Data (CDED). In these data, elevations can be either ground or reflective surface elevations.
A CDEM mosaic can be obtained for a pre-defined or user-defined extent. The coverage and resolution of a mosaic varies according to latitude and to the extent of the requested area.
Derived products such as slope, shaded relief and colour shaded relief maps can also be generated on demand by using the Geospatial-Data Extraction tool. Data can then be saved in many formats.
The pre-packaged GeoTiff datasets are based on the National Topographic System of Canada (NTS) at the 1:250 000 scale; the NTS index file is available in the Resources section in many formats.
Metadata
Date Created
2012-11-06
Date Published
2015
Temporal Coverage
1945 - 2011
Access in last 30 days
1,278
All time access
3,424
Source(s) and Citation
Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada;Strategic Policy and Innovation Sector. (2015). Canadian Digital Elevation Model, 1945-2011. Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada;Strategic Policy and Innovation Sector.
Use Limitations
Map
Data resources
Resources
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Data resources
Canadian Digital Elevation Model, Color Shaded Relief
Type:
Web Service
Format:
WMS
Languages:
English
Canadian Digital Elevation Model, Color Shaded Relief
Type:
Web Service
Format:
WMS
Languages:
French
Download directory to pre-packaged GeoTIFF files
Type:
Dataset
Format:
GeoTIF
Languages:
English, French
Canadian Digital Elevation Model - Product Specifications
Type:
Supporting Document
Format:
Languages:
French
Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF of the CDEM hillshade
Type:
Dataset
Format:
GeoTIF
Languages:
English, French
Canadian Digital Elevation Model - Product Specifications
Type:
Supporting Document
Format:
Languages:
English
CDEM product index (drag and drop the kmz file in Google Earth to localize your region of interest)
Type:
Supporting Document
Format:
KMZ
Languages:
English, French
NTS Index (Use to identify the number of your area of interest)
Type:
Supporting Document
Format:
HTML
Languages:
French
NTS Index (Use to identify the number of your area of interest)
Type:
Supporting Document
Format:
HTML
Languages:
English
Documentation on the use of the Elevation API
Type:
Supporting Document
Format:
HTML
Languages:
English
Customized files and derived products in ASCII Grid format (Geospatial-Data Extraction tool)
Type:
Dataset
Format:
ASCII Grid
Languages:
English
Customized files and derived products in ASCII Grid format (Geospatial-Data Extraction tool)
Type:
Dataset
Format:
ASCII Grid
Languages:
French
Customized files and derived products in GeoTIFF format (Geospatial-Data Extraction tool)
Type:
Dataset
Format:
GeoTIF
Languages:
French
Customized files and derived products in GeoTIFF format (Geospatial-Data Extraction tool)
Type:
Dataset
Format:
GeoTIF
Languages:
English
Documentation on the use of the Elevation API
Type:
Supporting Document
Format:
HTML
Languages:
French
Related keywords
canada, earth sciences, elevation, relief, geomatics, geobase, cdem, dem, cded, geographic information systems, geomatics, earth sciences, cartography, geography, geographic data, topography
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