Digital elevation model correction in urban areas using extreme gradient boosting, land cover and terrain parameters

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geospatial

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OkoMilAdeSmi

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The accuracy of digital elevation models (DEMs) in urban areas is influenced by numerous factors including land cover and terrain irregularities. Moreover, building artifacts in global DEMs cause artificial blocking of surface flow pathways. This compromises their quality and adequacy for hydrological and environmental modelling in urban landscapes where precise and accurate terrain information is needed. In this study, the extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) ensemble algorithm is adopted for enhancing the accuracy of two medium-resolution 30m DEMs over Cape Town, South Africa: Copernicus GLO-30 and ALOS World 3D (AW3D). XGBoost is a scalable, portable and versatile gradient boosting library that can solve many environmental modelling problems. The training datasets are comprised of eleven predictor variables including elevation, urban footprints, slope, aspect, surface roughness, topographic position index, terrain ruggedness index, terrain surface texture, vector roughness measure, forest cover and bare ground cover. The target variable (elevation error) was calculated with respect to highly accurate airborne LiDAR. After training and testing, the model was applied for correcting the DEMs at two implementation sites. The correction achieved significant accuracy gains which are competitive with other proposed methods. The root mean square error (RMSE) of Copernicus DEM improved by 46 to 53% while the RMSE of AW3D DEM improved by 72 to 73%. These results showcase the potential of gradient boosted trees for enhancing the quality of DEMs, and for improved hydrological modelling in urban catchments. 8 pages

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