Scottish Public Sector LiDAR Dataset

Description

This dataset is Lidar data that has been collected by the Scottish public sector and made available under the Open Government Licence. The data are available as point cloud (LAS format or in LAZ compressed format), along with the derived Digital Terrain Model (DTM) and Digital Surface Model (DSM) products as Cloud optimized GeoTIFFs (COG) or standard GeoTIFF. The dataset contains multiple subsets of data which were each commissioned and flown in response to different organisational requirements. The details of each can be found at https://remotesensingdata.gov.scot/data#/list

Update Frequency

New datasets have historically been added every 2-3 years but there is no guarantee that this will continue.

License

All data is made available under the Open Government Licence v3 unless otherwise stated. Currently the exception is only the phase 2 - LAZ files which are under non-commercial government license.

Documentation

https://remotesensingdata.gov.scot/data#/list

Managed By

See all datasets managed by Joint Nature Conservation Committee.

Contact

https://remotesensingdata.gov.scot/feedback or email Scottish Government on gi-sat@gov.scot

How to Cite

Scottish Public Sector LiDAR Dataset was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/scottish-lidar.

Usage Examples

Tutorials

• LiDAR Tutorial using QGIS by Michal Michalski
  
• LiDAR Tutorial using R by Michal Michalski
  

Tools & Applications

• Scottish Remote Sensing Portal by Scottish Government and Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
  

Publications

• Large area archaeological survey in the age of big data and machine learning by Dave Cowley, George Geddes, Łukasz Banaszek, Kirsty Millican and Iris Kramer
  
• Making LiGHT Work of Large Area Survey? Developing Approaches to Rapid Archaeological Mapping and the Creation of Systematic National-scaled Heritage Data by Dave Cowley, Łukasz Banaszek, George Geddes, Angela Gannon, Mike Middleton and Kirsty Millican
  
• New light on medieval settlement in lowland Scotland by Dave Cowley and Piers Dixon
  
• Towards National Archaeological Mapping. Assessing Source Data and Methodology - A Case Study from Scotland by Łukasz Banaszek, Dave Cowley and Mike Middleton