Abstract

Mexico has used two vertical datums—the U.S. National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD29) and the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88). Because Mexico started using the NAVD88 as its vertical datum in 2015, most of Mexico’s data is referenced to the NGVD29 and recent high resolution data are referenced to the NAVD88. Compounding this situation, satellite-derived Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) are referenced to the Earth Gravimetric Model 96 (EGM96), and no tools are currently available in Mexico to transform elevation data between the aforementioned vertical datums. To overcome this problem, this work presents the development of two surfaces to transform orthometric heights between the NGVD29 and NAVD88 or between the NGVD29 and EGM96 in Mexico. These surfaces can be used by any interested user to transform orthometric heights referenced to the aforementioned datums.

Measurement(s)

height above vertical datum

Technology Type(s)

data transformation

Sample Characteristic - Environment

planetary surface

Sample Characteristic - Location

Mexico

Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data: 10.6084/m9.figshare.12302564

Details

Title
Vertical datum transformation grids for Mexico
Author
Carrera-Hernández, Jaime J 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

1  Centro de Geociencias, UNAM, Queretaro, Mexico (GRID:grid.9486.3) (ISNI:0000 0001 2159 0001) 
Publication year
2020
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20524463
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0511-x
ProQuest document ID
2409175139
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2020. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.