Hintereisferner (Alps)

Located in the Austrian Alps (46°47’43”N 10°46’01”E), RGI60-11.00897.

The sources available are: ASTER, COPDEM30, COPDEM90, AW3D30, DEM3, MAPZEN, NASADEM, SRTM and TanDEM-X.

Summary

  • in an easy location in the mid-latitudes, all DEMs are qualitatively OK

  • DEM3 is the most different from all, with an obvious higher elevation tongue

  • worrying generalised bias between SRTM and TanDEM-X, the latter being higher of 40m in average

  • ASTER and SRTM agree the most

  • NASADEM shows noticeable differences to SRTM in steeper (often unglaciated areas) which are also present in e.g. AW3D30. But the flatter parts of the glacier are very similar.

Maps

../_images/dem_topo_color7.png

Shaded relief

../_images/dem_topo_shade7.png

Differences

../_images/dem_diffs7.png

Scatter plots

These scatter plots are for the glacier area only.

../_images/dem_scatter7.png