RT Journal Article SR Electronic A1 Klimánek, Martin T1 Accuracy of digital terrain model and its application in forestry JF Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis YR 2014 VO 55 IS 4 SP 137 OP 144 DO 10.11118/actaun200755040137 UL https://acta.mendelu.cz/artkey/acu-200704-0017.php AB Digital terrain model (DTM) is considered as an important geospatial data layer. At the present in the Czech Republic, digital contour data sources are often used for constructing regular raster DTM; the initial process requires interpolation between the points in order to estimate values in a regular grid pattern. The commonly used data sources are: the Primary Geographic Data Base (ZABAGED), the Digital Territory Model (DMÚ25) and eventually the Regional Plans of Forest Development (OPRL). In this paper, some constructions of DTM based on the above mentioned data were tested using several software products. Algorithm parameters can be optimized in several ways; in this sense the most useful operations proved comparing the first and second derivative of DTM and its real appearance in terrain and using cross-validation procedure or terrain data measurements to compute and minimize the root mean square error values (RMSE). The Forest Training Enterprise "Masaryk Forest" was the area for the experimental optimization of DTM.