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The year 1997 marked the start of creating a highly detailed nationwide Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of the Netherlands, up to one height point per 16 m2, making use of airborne Lidar technology. The accuracy specifications of the so-called AHN were: 15 cm root mean square error (RMSE) and 5 cm systematic error. At that time, commercial Lidar was still in its infancy and many operational hurdles had to be overcome. The AHN project was completed in 2003. Figure 8.1 shows a part of a raw airborne Lidar data set used to create AHN. ‘The Netherlands is flat as a coin. Why you need such a detailed DEM?’ some foreigners laughed, especially those living in mountainous areas. The answer is quite simple: when 40% of a country’s territory is situated below sea level, every decimetre counts in the struggle to keep feet dry.

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Lemmens, M. (2011). Airborne Lidar. In: Geo-information. Geotechnologies and the Environment, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1667-4_8

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