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Australian 5M DEM

The Digital Elevation Model (DEM) 5 meter Grid of Australia derived from LiDAR model represents a National 5 meter (bare earth) DEM which has been derived from some 236 individual LiDAR surveys between 2001 and 2015 covering an area in excess of 245,000 square kilometers. These surveys cover Australia's populated coastal zone; floodplain surveys within the Murray Darling Basin, and individual surveys of major and minor population centers. All available 1 meter resolution LiDAR-derived DEMs have

Source details

Licence: CC-BY-4.0

Evidence quality: 30.9

Listed in gee public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).

Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z

Evidence

• ee.ImageCollection('AU/GA/AUSTRALIA_5M_DEM')
• https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/AU_GA_AUSTRALIA_5M_DEM

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