NOAA Coastal Lidar Data

Description

Lidar (light detection and ranging) is a technology that can measure the 3-dimentional location of objects, including the solid earth surface. The data consists of a point cloud of the positions of solid objects that reflected a laser pulse, typically from an airborne platform. In addition to the position, each point may also be attributed by the type of object it reflected from, the intensity of the reflection, and other system dependent metadata. The NOAA Coastal Lidar Data is a collection of lidar projects from many different sources and agencies, geographically focused on the coastal areas of the United States of America. The data is provided in Entwine Point Tiles (https://entwine.io) format, which is a lossless streamable octree of the point cloud. Datasets are maintained in their original projects and care should be taken when merging projects. The coordinate reference system for the data is The NAD83(2011) UTM zone appropriate for the center of each data set and the orthometric datum appropriate for that area (for example, NAVD88 in the mainland United States, PRVD02 in Puerto Rico, or GUVD03 in Guam). The geoid model used is reflected in the data set resource name.

Update Frequency

Periodically, as new data becomes available

License

Open Data. There are no restrictions on the use of this data.

Documentation

https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/data/coastallidar.html and https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/data/jalbtcx.html

Managed By

See all datasets managed by NOAA.

Contact

For any questions regarding data delivery or any general questions regarding the NOAA Open Data Dissemination (NODD) Program, email the NODD Team at nodd@noaa.gov. For general questions or feedback about the data, please submit inquiries through the NOAA Office for Coastal Management Contact Form https://coast.noaa.gov/contactform/. </ br> We also seek to identify case studies on how NOAA data is being used and will be featuring those stories in joint publications and in upcoming events. If you are interested in seeing your story highlighted, please share it with the NODD team by emailing nodd@noaa.gov

How to Cite

NOAA Coastal Lidar Data was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-coastal-lidar.

Usage Examples

Tools & Applications

• OpenTopography access and processing of NOAA Coastal Lidar Data by OpenTopography