European Commission Awards $1 million
Contract to Indra Espacio’s Subcontractor,
Intermap Technologies, to Create New Pan-
European Digital Elevation Model
High-Resolution Dataset Delivered with Prime Contractor Indra Espacio as Part of Agreement to Support
Commission’s GMES Program
March 02, 2010 06:36 AM Eastern Time
DENVER & MUNICH--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Intermap Technologies, the foremost 3D digital mapping
and geospatial solutions company, today announced that its German subsidiary, Intermap Technologies GmbH, is
providing a seamless digital elevation model (DEM) of the 38 countries comprising the European Environment
Agency (EEA38). The new EU-DEM will serve as the elevation data component of the European Commission’s
Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) Geospatial Reference Data Program – supporting the
GMES Land Monitoring and Emergency Response Services initiatives.
Under the terms of the $1 million contract, the freely accessible EU-DEM will be created using publicly available
Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) and Shuttle Radar Topography
Mission (SRTM) data. Inconsistencies within the SRTM and ASTER datasets will be removed by adjusting them
with the highly accurate NEXTMap Europe elevation dataset. In addition, a commercially available 1 arc-second
NEXTMap Europe digital terrain model (DTM) will be provided for land monitoring services, as well as a 0.15 arc-
second DTM for emergency response services.
Intermap will provide access to this new, uniformly accurate DEM to the European Commission Directorate-General
for Enterprise and Industry via a set of middleware, OGC compliant, services over the next 3 years, beginning
January 2010. These services will be implemented by Indra Espacio, Spain. The EU-DEM will provide the GMES
user community with an underlying 3D geographic framework, upon which additional thematic datasets can be
produced and distributed. The new DEM will also enable the rigorous assessment, ana