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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Hello Eddison,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I am not sure what source you are using for the ALOS PALSAR DEM that you are describing. As far as I know, there is no systematically processed DEM made from ALOS PALSAR data.
There is a DEM composite that the Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF) is using for their Radiometric Terrain Correction (RTC) processing of the ALOS PALSAR that they have resampled from other sources. See their web page for details:<br>
<a href="https://asf.alaska.edu/data-sets/derived-data-sets/alos-palsar-rtc/alos-palsar-radiometric-terrain-correction/#dem_information">https://asf.alaska.edu/data-sets/derived-data-sets/alos-palsar-rtc/alos-palsar-radiometric-terrain-correction/#dem_information</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The web page explains that they were using the SRTM1 (1-arcsecond or about 30 m) DEM interpolated to the 12.5 meter spacing of the ALOS PALSAR RTC products. The SRTM DEM has
the EGM96 geoid reference. I think they may recently have changed to using the Copernicus GLO-30 DEM that is also 1-arcsecond spacing but uses the EGM2008 geoid reference. Again, they will interpolate it to the 12.5 m spacing for their ALOS PALSAR RTC processing.
Over the USA, they used the USGS NED DEMs that are higher resolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">If this is the source of the “ALOS PALSAR DEM” that you are using, you will be better off getting the original DEM for your area from either the Copernicus GLO-30 DEM sources
(there are several) or the USGS NED DEM sources. You will still have to do the geoid to ellipsoid height conversions but it won’t be modified by the interpolation that ASF is doing in their RTC processing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">++Eric Fielding<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">JPL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Message: 1<br>
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2023 20:08:39 -0600<br>
From: Eddison Araya <eddisonjose@gmail.com><br>
To: Nicolas Cadieux <njacadieux.gitlab@gmail.com><br>
Cc: qgis-user <qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org><br>
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Convert an ALOS PALSAR DEM from ellipsoidal<br>
to geoid.<br>
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Hello yes, thank you very much, according to that source it is EMG-2008<br>
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Regards!<br>
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eddison<br>
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