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agriculturedisaster responseearth observationelevationgeospatial
A global dataset providing bare-earth terrain heights, tiled for easy usage and provided on S3.
agriculturedisaster responseelevationgeospatiallidarstac
The goal of the USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) is to collect elevation data in the form of light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data over the conterminous United States, Hawaii, and the U.S. territories, with data acquired over an 8-year period. This dataset provides two realizations of the 3DEP point cloud data. The first resource is a public access organization provided in Entwine Point Tiles format, which a lossless, full-density, streamable octree based on LASzip (LAZ) encoding. The second resource is a Requester Pays of the original, Raw LAZ (Compressed LAS) 1.4 3DEP format, and more co...
cogearth observationelevationgeospatialmappingopen source softwaresatellite imagerystac
ArcticDEM - 2m GSD Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) and mosaics from 2007 to the present. The ArcticDEM project seeks to fill the need for high-resolution time-series elevation data in the Arctic. The time-dependent nature of the strip DEM files allows users to perform change detection analysis and to compare observations of topography data acquired in different seasons or years. The mosaic DEM tiles are assembled from multiple strip DEMs with the intention of providing a more consistent and comprehensive product over large areas. ArcticDEM data is constructed from in-track and cross-track high...
cogearth observationelevationgeospatialstac
The New Zealand Elevation dataset consists of New Zealand's publicly owned digital elevation models and digital surface models, which are freely available to use under an open licence. The dataset contains 1m resolution grids derived from LiDAR data. Point clouds are not included in the initial release.All of the elevation files are Cloud Optimised GeoTIFFs using LERC compression for the main grid and LERC compression with lower max_z_error for the overviews. These elevation files are accompanied by
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cogearth observationelevationgeospatialmappingopen source softwaresatellite imagerystac
The Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica - 2m GSD Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) and mosaics from 2009 to the present. The REMA project seeks to fill the need for high-resolution time-series elevation data in the Antarctic. The time-dependent nature of the strip DEM files allows users to perform change detection analysis and to compare observations of topography data acquired in different seasons or years. The mosaic DEM tiles are assembled from multiple strip DEMs with the intention of providing a more consistent and comprehensive product over large areas. REMA data is constructed from in...
citiescoastalcogelevationenvironmentallidarurban
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
cogearth observationelevationgeospatialmappingopen source softwaresatellite imagerystac
EarthDEM - 2m GSD Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) and mosaics from 2002 to the present. The EarthDEM project seeks to fill the need for high-resolution time-series elevation data in non-polar regions. The time-dependent nature of the strip DEM files allows users to perform change detection analysis and to compare observations of topography data acquired in different seasons or years. The mosaic DEM tiles are assembled from multiple strip DEMs with the intention of providing a more consistent and comprehensive product over large areas. EarthDEM data is constructed from in-track and cross-track ...
agriculturecogdisaster responseelevationgeospatialhydrologysatellite imagerystac
Height Above Nearest Drainage (HAND) is a terrain model that normalizes topography to the relative heights along the drainage network and is used to describe the relative soil gravitational potentials or the local drainage potentials. Each pixel value represents the vertical distance to the nearest drainage. The HAND data provides near-worldwide land coverage at 30 meters and was produced from the 2021 release of the Copernicus GLO-30 Public DEM as distributed in the Registry of Open Data on AWS.
aerial imageryearth observationelevationgeospatiallidar
The KyFromAbove initiative is focused on building and maintaining a current basemap for Kentucky that can meet the needs of its users at the state, federal, local, and regional level. A common basemap, including current color leaf-off aerial photography and elevation data (LiDAR), reduces the cost of developing GIS applications, promotes data sharing, and add efficiencies to many business processes. All basemap data acquired through this effort is being made available in the public domain. KyFromAbove acquires aerial imagery and LiDAR during leaf-off conditions in the Commonwealth. The imagery...
elevationlidarplanetarystac
The lunar orbiter laser altimeter (LOLA) has collected and released almost 7 billion individual laser altimeter returns from the lunar surface. This dataset includes individual altimetry returns scraped from the Planetary Data System (PDS) LOLA Reduced Data Record (RDR) Query Tool, V2.0. Data are organized in 15˚ x 15˚ (longitude/latitude) sections, compressed and encoded into the Cloud Optimized Point Cloud (COPC) file format, and collected into a Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog (STAC) collection for query and analysis. The data are in latitude, longitude, and radius (X, Y, Z) format with the p...
citieselevationgeospatiallandlidarmappingurban
The objective of the Mapa 3D Digital da Cidade (M3DC) of the São Paulo City Hall is to publish LiDAR point cloud data. The initial data was acquired in 2017 by aerial surveying and future data will be added. This publicly accessible dataset is provided in the Entwine Point Tiles format as a lossless octree, full density, based on LASzip (LAZ) encoding.
aerial imageryearth observationelevationgeospatialland coverlidar
The State of Vermont has partnered with Amazon's Open Data Initative to make a wide range of geospatial data available in the public domain. Vermont acquires aerial imagery and LiDAR during leaf-off conditions. The imagery typically ranges from 30-centimeter to 15-centimeter in resolution and is available from Vermont's Amazon S3 bucket in a Cloud Optimized GeoTiff (COG) format. LiDAR data has been acquired and is available as USGS Quality Level-1 (QL1) and Level-2 (QL2) compliant datasets in COG format. Geospatial datasets derived from imagery and/or lidar are also available as COGs, ...
cogelevationplanetarystac
The Japan Aerospace EXploration Agency (JAXA) SELenological and ENgineering Explorer (SELENE) mission’s Kaguya spacecraft was launched on September 14, 2007 and science operations around the Moon started October 20, 2007. The primary mission in a circular polar orbit 100-km above the surface lasted from October 20, 2007 until October 31, 2008. An extended mission was then conducted in lower orbits (averaging 50km above the surface) from November 1, 2008 until the SELENE mission ended with Kaguya impacting the Moon on June 10, 2009. These data are digital terrain models derived using the NASA A...
cogelevationplanetarysatellite imagerystac
As of March, 2023 the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) High Resolution Science Experiment (HiRISE) sensor has collected more than 5000 targeted stereopairs. During HiRISE acquisition, the Context Camera (CTX) also collects lower resolution, higher spatial extent context images. These CTX acquisitions are also targeted stereopairs. This data set contains targeted CTX DTMs and orthoimages, created using the NASA Ames Stereopipeline. These data have been created using relatively controlled CTX images that have been globally bundle adjusted using the USGS Integrated System for Imagers and Spectro...
agriculturecogdisaster responseearth observationelevationgeospatialsatellite imagery
The Copernicus DEM is a Digital Surface Model (DSM) which represents the surface of the Earth including buildings, infrastructure and vegetation. We provide two instances of Copernicus DEM named GLO-30 Public and GLO-90. GLO-90 provides worldwide coverage at 90 meters. GLO-30 Public provides limited worldwide coverage at 30 meters because a small subset of tiles covering specific countries are not yet released to the public by the Copernicus Programme. Note that in both cases ocean areas do not have tiles, there one can assume height values equal to zero. Data is provided as Cloud Optimized Ge...
climatedisaster responseelevationgeospatiallidarstac
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 (EPT; https://entwine.io) format, which is a lossless streamable octree of the point cloud, and in LAZ format. 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 for EPT and geographic coordinates for LAZ. Vertically they are in 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.
The ...
elevationgeospatiallidarmapping
Elevation datasets in New Jersey have been collected over several years as several discrete projects. Each project covers a geographic area, which is a subsection of the entire state, and has differing specifications based on the available technology at the time and project budget. The geographic extent of one project may overlap that of a neighboring project. Each of the 18 projects contains deliverable products such as LAS (Lidar point cloud) files, unclassified/classified, tiled to cover project area; relevant metadata records or documents, most adhering to the Federal Geographic Data Com...
bathymetrydisaster responseelevationgeospatialjapaneselandlidarmapping
This dataset comprises high-precision 3D point cloud data that encompasses the entire Shizuoka prefecture in Japan, covering 7,200 out of its 7,777 square kilometers. The data is produced through aerial laser survey, airborne laser bathymetry and mobile mapping systems, the culmination of many years of dedicated effort.This data will be visualized and analyzed for use in infrastructure maintenance, disaster prevention measures and autonomous vehicle driving.
agricultureair qualityair temperatureatmosphereclimateclimate modelclimate projectionsCMIP5CMIP6ecosystemselevationenvironmentalEulerianeventsfloodsfluid dynamicsgeosciencegeospatialhdf5healthHPChydrologyinfrastructureland coverland usemeteorologicalmodelnear-surface air temperaturenear-surface relative humiditynear-surface specific humiditynetcdfopen source softwarephysicspost-processingprecipitationradiationsimulationsuswaterweather
The data are a subset of the EPA Dynamically Downscaled Ensemble (EDDE), Version 1. EDDE is a collection of physics-based modeled data that represent 3D atmospheric conditions for historical and future periods under different scenarios. The EDDE Version 1 datasets cover the contiguous United States at a horizontal grid spacing of 36 kilometers at hourly increments. EDDE Version 1 includes simulations that have been dynamically downscaled from multiple global climate models (GCMs) under both mid- and high-emission scenarios from the Fifth Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) using the...
agricultureair qualityair temperatureatmosphereclimateclimate modelclimate projectionsCMIP5CMIP6ecosystemselevationenvironmentalEulerianeventsfloodsfluid dynamicsgeosciencegeospatialhdf5healthHPChydrologyinfrastructureland coverland usemeteorologicalmodelnear-surface air temperaturenear-surface relative humiditynear-surface specific humiditynetcdfopen source softwarephysicspost-processingprecipitationradiationsimulationsuswaterweather
The data are a subset of the EPA Dynamically Downscaled Ensemble (EDDE), Version 2. EDDE is a collection of physics-based modeled data that represent 3D atmospheric conditions for historical and future periods under different scenarios. The EDDE Version 2 datasets cover the contiguous United States at a horizontal grid spacing of 12 kilometers at hourly increments. EDDE Version 2 will include simulations that have been dynamically downscaled from multiple global climate models (GCMs) under multiple emission scenarios from the Sixth Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) using the Weath...
disaster responseelevationgeospatiallidar
The U.S. Cities elevation data collection program supported the US Department of Homeland Security Homeland Security and Infrastructure Program (HSIP). As part of the HSIP Program, there were 133+ U.S. cities that had imagery and LiDAR collected to provide the Homeland Security, Homeland Defense, and Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery (EPR&R) community with common operational, geospatially enabled baseline data needed to analyze threat, support critical infrastructure protection and expedite readiness, response and recovery in the event of a man-made or natural disaster. As a pa...
climatedisaster responseelevationgeospatiallidarstac
The Unified Forecast System (UFS) is a community-based, coupled, comprehensive Earth Modeling System. The UFS Coastal application is a project under development by NOAA and NCAR, which supports coastal forecasting requirements based on UFS standards. The coupling infrastructure for UFS Coastal App is currently being developed based on a fork of the ufs-weather-model (UFS-WM), with additional coastal model-components including SCHISM, ADCIRC, ROMS, and FVCOM, as well as additional infrastructure to support coastal coupling of WW3 and CICE. The model-level repository contains the model code and external submodules needed to build the UFS coastal model executable and the associated model components.
The UFS Coastal Regression Test (RT) system is a type of testing built into the software development that ensures that changes to the model-level code and associated model-components do not break the existing functionality of the code. The number and type of tests currently in the RT system suite are evolving along with current dependencies such as UFS-WM and ESMF libraries. Currently, at least one RT case exists for each coastal model. The status and descriptions of the existing RT cases is available via the UFS Coastal Wiki page. These are currently regularly tested on NOAA/MSU Hercules platform, and to a lesser frequency on TACC/Frontera.
Each of the regression tests require a set of input data files and configuration files. The configuration files include namelist and model configuration files which can be found within the UFS-Coastal model code repository. The ...