FABDEM Updates - FABDEM V1-2

FABDEM (FABDEM (Forest And Building removed copernicus Digital Elevation Model) is a global 1 arc second grid spacing Digital Terrain Model. Trees and buildings are removed from Copernicus GLO30 DEM using a novel machine learning approach. Since FABDEM’s release it has been widely used by the community in a variety of geoscience applications.

In this paper, we outline the latest updates to FABDEM (V1-2). Improvements to FABDEM include updating the baseline Digital Surface Model and methodological tweaks to fix discontinuities at some tile edges and artifacts caused by resampling at higher latitudes.