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Copernicus DEM Global 90m

GLO-90 is a Digital Elevation Model that offers global coverage at a resolution of 90 metres. Surface coverage is ~ 149 M km 2

The dataset is presented as a Zarr archive.

How to download the data

This Python snippet includes the token directly in the URL.

1import xarray as xr
2
3xr.open_dataset(
4    "https://edh:<your API key>@data.earthdatahub.destine.eu/copernicus-dem/GLO-90-v0.zarr",
5    chunks={},
6    engine="zarr",
7    decode_coords="all",
8    mask_and_scale=False,
9)

Variables

Short NameUnitsDescription
dsm
m

altitude over the geoid

DestinE platform