generic-tif Geospatial Dataset

In this file, the necessary technical details of the dataset is explained.

Location of the generic-tif Dataset Files

This dataset can process any GeoTIFF file and is designed to handle those data bases without any specific structure. Current datasets that can be processed by this recipe along with their HPC locations are listed below. These paths can be used as values for the --dataset-dir argument:

# UCalgary ARC Cluster
/work/comphyd_lab/data/geospatial-data/hawaii_dem/3mDEM # High resolution Hawaii DEM
/work/comphyd_lab/data/geospatial-data/iceland_dem # High resolution Iceland DEM
/work/comphyd_lab/data/geospatial-data/baker_creek_dem # High resolution Baker Creek DEM
/work/comphyd_lab/data/geospatial-data/wolf_creek_dem # High resolution Wolf Creek DEM
/work/comphyd_lab/data/geospatial-data/marmot_creek_dem # High resolution Marmot Creek DEM

# DRAC Fir Allocation Cluster
/project/rrg-alpie/data/geospatial-data/* # rrg-alpie allocation
/project/rrg-alpie/data/geospatial-data/canelevation-dem/mrdem-30 # 30-meter MRDEM DSM and DTM layers

Dataset Variables

This variables of this dataset are detailed in the table below:

#	Dataset Directory	Variable Name(s) (value for --variables)	Description	Comments
1	Hawaii DEM	Big_Island.tif, Kahoolawe.tif, Kauai_Puuwai.tif, Lanai.tif, Maui.tif, Molokai.tif, Oahu.tif	High-resolution DEM of Hawaii islands	[1]
2	Iceland DEM	merged_iceland_dem.tif	High-resolution DEM of Iceland	[2]
3	Baker Creek DEM	baker-creek-10m-DEM.tif	10-m LiDAR DEM of the Baker Creek River Basin, NWT, Canada	[3]
4	Wolf Creek DEM	wolf-creek-30m-DEM.tif	30-m LiDAR DEM of the Wolf Creek River Basin, YT, Canada	[4]
5	Marmot Creek DEM	marmot-creek-8m-DEM.tif	8-m LiDAR DEM of the Marmot Creek River Basin, AB, Canada	[5]
6	MRDEM	mrdem-30-dsm.tif & mrdem-30-dtm.tif	30m DSM and DTM layers of Canada	[6]

[1]

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). (2021). Continuously Updated Digital Elevation Model (CUDEM) – Ninth Arc-Second Resolution Bathymetric-Topographic Tiles: Hawaii Data set (Tile Cluster 9428; fileIdentifier gov.noaa.ngdc.mgg.dem:299919). NOAA. Retrieved September 12, 2024, from https://noaa-nos-coastal-lidar-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/dem/NCEI_ninth_Topobathy_Hawaii_9428/index.html

[2]

National Land Survey of Iceland (Landmælingar Íslands). (2016). ÍslandsDEM v1.0 [Digital Elevation Model of Iceland, 10 m resolution]. License: CC BY 4.0. Available at https://atlas.lmi.is/dem or https://dem.lmi.is/mapview/?application=DEM.

[3]

Spence, C., Hedstrom, N. (2018). Baker Creek Research Catchment Hydrometeorological and Hydrological Data. Federated Research Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.20383/101.026

[4]

Rasouli, K., Pomeroy, J. W., Janowicz, J. R., Williams, T. J., & Carey, S. K. (2019). A long-term hydrometeorological dataset (1993–2014) of a northern mountain basin: Wolf Creek Research Basin, Yukon Territory, Canada. Earth System Science Data, 11(1), 89-100, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-89-2019

[5]

Fang, X., Pomeroy, J. W., DeBeer, C. M., Harder, P., and Siemens, E. (2019). Hydrometeorological data from Marmot Creek Research Basin, Canadian Rockies. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 455–471, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-455-2019.

[6]

H. McGrath et al., “Descriptor: Medium Resolution Digital Elevation Model From Natural Resources Canada’s CanElevation Series (MRDEM-30),” in IEEE Data Descriptions, vol. 2, pp. 211-217, 2025, doi: 10.1109/IEEEDATA.2025.3576318.