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A Digital Elevation Model (DEM) is a representation of the bare ground topographic surface of the Earth?excluding trees, buildings, and other surface objects.? It is a 3D computer graphics representation of elevated data to represent terrain.

A digital elevation model is a bare-earth raster grid referenced to a vertical datum. The DEM can even be obtained from stereo digital aerial imagery at various resolutions, depending on the quality and scale of the imagery.