Canadian Digital Elevation Model, 1945-2011

Description

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.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
Canadian Digital Elevation Model, Color Shaded Relief WMS https://cartes.geogratis.gc.ca/wms/elevation_fr?service=WMS&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities&layers=cdem.color-shaded-relief&legend_format=image/png&feature_info_type=text/html
Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF of the CDEM Unknown https://datacube-prod-data-public.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/store/elevation/cdem-cdsm/cdem/cdem-canada-dem.tif
Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF of the CDEM hillshade Unknown https://datacube-prod-data-public.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/store/elevation/cdem-cdsm/cdem/cdem-canada-hillshade.tif
Download directory to pre-packaged GeoTIFF files Unknown https://ftp.maps.canada.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/elevation/cdem_mnec/
Canadian Digital Elevation Model - Product Specifications PDF https://ftp.maps.canada.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/elevation/cdem_mnec/doc/CDEM_product_specs.pdf
Canadian Digital Elevation Model - Product Specifications PDF https://ftp.maps.canada.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/elevation/cdem_mnec/doc/MNEC_specs_produit.pdf
CDEM product index (drag and drop the kmz file in Google Earth to localize your region of interest) Unknown https://ftp.maps.canada.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/elevation/cdem_mnec/index/cdem_index_250k.kmz
Customized files and derived products in GeoTIFF format (Geospatial-Data Extraction tool) Unknown https://maps.canada.ca/czs/index-en.html
Customized files and derived products in ASCII Grid format (Geospatial-Data Extraction tool) Unknown https://maps.canada.ca/czs/index-en.html
Customized files and derived products in ASCII Grid format (Geospatial-Data Extraction tool) Unknown https://maps.canada.ca/czs/index-fr.html
Customized files and derived products in GeoTIFF format (Geospatial-Data Extraction tool) Unknown https://maps.canada.ca/czs/index-fr.html
Canadian Digital Elevation Model, Color Shaded Relief WMS https://maps.geogratis.gc.ca/wms/elevation_en?service=WMS&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities&layers=cdem.color-shaded-relief&legend_format=image/png&feature_info_type=text/html
NTS Index (Use to identify the number of your area of interest) HTML https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/055919c2-101e-4329-bfd7-1d0c333c0e62
NTS Index (Use to identify the number of your area of interest) HTML https://ouvert.canada.ca/data/fr/dataset/055919c2-101e-4329-bfd7-1d0c333c0e62
Documentation on the use of the Elevation API HTML https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/earth-sciences/geography/topographic-information/web-services/elevation-api/17328
Documentation on the use of the Elevation API HTML https://www.rncan.gc.ca/sciences-terre/geographie/information-topographique/api/api-elevation/api-elevation/17329

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