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(excerpt from The National Elevation Dataset chapter in the 2nd edition of Digital Elevation Model Technologies and Applications: The DEM Users Manual, to be published by ASPRS in November 2006) Accuracy Assessment The accuracy of the NED varies spatially because of the variable quality of the source DEMs. As such, the NED inherits the accuracy of the source DEMs. Some accuracy statistics are available in the header records of the USGS DEM source files, and this information is captured in the spatially referenced metadata. Many times, this accuracy information has limited usefulness bec