Used SPOT DEM was produced by Najran Municipality with spatial resolution of 10 m. A SPOT DEM is a digital elevation model produced by automatic correlation of stereo pairs (known as Stereoscopy) acquired by the HRS instrument on SPOT 5. Stereoscopy is traditionally used to measure variation of parallax between two images of the same scene taken from different view. To produce DEM, the first step is to compute the parallax map and the second step is to project this map to proper coordinate system.
After processing, the image is resampled to 10 m by 10 m and stored in Panchromatic (PAN) image as shown in Fig. 2a. SRTM DEM for the study area was downloaded from web site in geotiff image format, in decimal degrees and datum WGS84. SRTM data cover the whole world but there are lack of data sets in some regions due to various reasons such as a lack of contrast in the radar image, presence of water, or excessive atmospheric interference. In this work, the quality of SPOT 5 and SRTM DEMs was examined with Ground Control Points (GCPs) their elevations obtained from Global Positioning System (GPS) technique.