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Inspired by the convolution neural network (CNN) excellent performance in super-resolution (SR) image analysis, this paper investigates the use of deep residual neural networks and low-resolution DEMs to generate high-resolution DEMs. An enhanced double-filter deep residual neural network (EDEM-SR) method is proposed, which uses filters with different receptive field sizes to fuse and extract features and reconstruct a more realistic high-resolution DEM. The results were compared with those generated with the bicubic, bilinear, and EDSR methods. The numerical accuracy and terrain feature preserving effects of the EDEM-SR method can generate reconstructed DEMs that better match the original DEMs, show lower MAE and RMSE, and improve the accuracy of the terrain parameters. MAE is reduced by about 30 to 50% compared with traditional interpolation methods. 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