Featured Product – 50-cm Vantor Vivid Terrain DEMs – A New Minimum Order Size!

A 50-cm Vivid Terrain DSM collected over Oahu, Hawaii, USA.

An Exciting Product Update Here!! First off, this product name has changed to Vivid Terrain but everything else remains the same as the original Precision 3D offering; well everything other than the minimum order which is now just 100 square kilometers – a massive decrease from the original minimum order!

In conjunction with our partner, Vantor, we are pleased to offer 50-cm Vivid Terrain (formerly called Precision 3D or P3D) digital elevation models (DEMs) from a growing archive that already covers over 80% of the global land mass. Produced exclusively by Vantor from their vast archive of mono satellite imagery, they are able to create 50-centimeter (cm) resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) with impressive spatial accuracy.

Vivid Terrain replaces the need for stereo pairs by combining a multitude of high-resolution satellite images taken at varying look angles along with a 3D modeling algorithm to create their extremely detailed and accurate elevation models. Vivid Terrain DEMs are offered at a variety of resolutions as both a digital surface model (DSM) or a digital terrain model (DTM).

A DTM of the Colorado Front Range on the left side of the image above blends into a Vivid Terrain 3D Surface Model over Golden, Colorado, USA.

Here is a summary of the current Vivid Terrain DEM specifications:

DEM Post Spacing (i.e. Resolution): 50-cm (core product offering)
Absolute Vertical Accuracy: < 3 m Linear Error 90% (LE90)
Absolute Horizontal Accuracy: < 3 m Circular Error 90% (CE90)
Product Levels: DSM and DTM
Average Delivery Time: 2 – 3 weeks, where available

Thanks to Vantor’s vast archive, they are able to create custom DEMs of almost any place in the world – adding massive blocks to the Vivid Terrain archive monthly.

You can search for Vivid Terrain DEM coverage 24-hours a day by using Image Hunter. If you have any pricing requests, additional questions or would like a new price list with Vivid Terrain DEM data added in, send us an email at sales@apollomapping.com!