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In modeling of geoid model, global digital elevation models (GDEMs) and global geopotential models (GGMs) involve in most part of the geoid computation process. Any errors in GDEMs and GGMs will introduce errors directly in geoid computation. Therefore, this study aims to evaluate the six recent GGMs and new digital elevation model from TanDEM-X, as well as the previously available GDEMs, SRTM GDEMs, over the southern region of Peninsular Malaysia. The evaluation of GDEMs has been performed with the use of high-precision Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and EGM96 as vertical reference consisting of 277 stations. Meanwhile, the evaluation of GGMs is carried out using sixty-two (62) collocated GPS/leveling benchmarks (BMs). Based on the statistical analysis, it is shown that the improvement of DEM from TanDEM-X data is compared to the previously available DEMs, SRTM GDEMs. DEM from TanDEM-X of 30-m arc resolution is much better than TanDEM-X of 12-m arc resolution, as well as SRTM 30m and 90m. Comparison of GGMs with GNSS leveling shows that geoid height from GOCO05c fits well with the local geoid model.
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Thanks to the U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey for providing the GDEMs data for study region. Also special thanks to the Department Survey and Mapping Malaysia (DSMM) for providing GNSS Leveling data in the study region. The authors also would like to thank German Aerospace Center for providing DEM data from DLR’s TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X satellite.
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Pa’suya, M.F. et al. (2018). Accuracy Assessment of TanDEM-X DEM and Global Geopotential Models for Geoid Modeling in the Southern Region of Peninsular Malaysia. In: Saian, R., Abbas, M. (eds) Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Future of ASEAN (ICoFA) 2017 – Volume 2. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8471-3_9
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