Department of Energy's Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)

Tools & Applications

• NSRDB Viewer by National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
  
• Tracking the Sun Tool by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
  

Publications

• Estimating rooftop solar technical potential across the US using a combination of GIS-based methods, lidar data, and statistical modeling by Pieter Gagnon et al 2018 Environ. Res. Lett. 13 024027
  
• On the Use of Coupled Wind, Wave, and Current Fields in the Simulation of Loads on BottomSupported Offshore Wind Turbines during Hurricanes by E. Kim, L. Manuel, M. Curcic, S. S. Chen, C. Phillips, P. Veers
  
• Rooftop Solar Photovoltaic Technical Potential in the United States: A Detailed Assessment by Pieter Gagnon, Robert Margolis, Jennifer Melius, Caleb Phillips, and Ryan Elmore
  
• Rooftop Solar Technical Potential for Low-to-Moderate Income Households in the United States by Benjamin Sigrin and Meghan Mooney
  
• The Distributed Generation Market Demand Model (dGen):Documentation by B. Sigrin, M. Gleason, R. Preus, I. Baring-Gould, R. Margolis
  
• Tracking the Sun Pricing and Design Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States: 2019 Edition by G. Barbose, N. Darghouth
  
• Using GIS-based methods and lidar data to estimate rooftop solar technical potential in US cities by Robert Margolis et al 2017 Environ. Res. Lett. 12 074013
  

USGS 3DEP LiDAR Point Clouds

Tutorials

• Extracting buildings and roads from AWS Open Data using Amazon SageMaker by Yunzhi Shi, Tianyu Zhang, and Xin Chen
  Amazon SageMaker
• Using Lambda Layers with USGS 3DEP LiDAR Point Clouds by Howard Butler
  AWS Lambda
• WebGL Visualization of USGS 3DEP Lidar Point Clouds with Potree and Plasio.js by Connor Manning
  

Tools & Applications

• Equator - View, Process, and Download USGS 3DEP LiDAR data in-browser by Equator Studios
  
• Facebook Line of Sight Check by Facebook
  
• Jupyter Notebooks to enable programmatic access to cloud-hosted USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) lidar data by OpenTopography
  
• OpenTopography access to 3DEP lidar point cloud data by OpenTopography
  

Publications

• Statewide USGS 3DEP Lidar Topographic Differencing Applied to Indiana, USA by Chelsea Phipps Scott, Matthew Beckley, Minh Phan, Emily Zawacki, Christopher Crosby, Viswanath Nandigam, and Ramon Arrowsmith
  
• USGS 3DEP Lidar Point Cloud Now Available as Amazon Public Dataset by Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
  

nuScenes

Tutorials

• nuImages devkit tutorial by Motional
  
  
• nuScenes CAN bus tutorial by Motional
  
  
• nuScenes devkit tutorial by Motional
  
  
• nuScenes lidarseg and panoptic tutorial by Motional
  
  
• nuScenes Map Expansion Tutorial by Motional
  
  
• nuScenes prediction tutorial by Motional
  
  

Tools & Applications

• nuScenes devkit by Motional
  

Publications

• nuScenes: A multimodal dataset for autonomous driving by Holger Caesar, Varun Bankiti, Alex H. Lang, Sourabh Vora, Venice Erin Liong, Qiang Xu, Anush Krishnan, Yu Pan, Giancarlo Baldan, Oscar Beijbom
  
• Panoptic nuScenes: A Large-Scale Benchmark for LiDAR Panoptic Segmentation and Tracking by Whye Kit Fong, Rohit Mohan, Juana Valeria Hurtado, Lubing Zhou, Holger Caesar, Oscar Beijbom, Abhinav Valada
  

Boreas Autonomous Driving Dataset

Tutorials

• Introduction to Visualizing Sensor Types (Jupyter notebook) by Keenan Burnett
  Amazon SageMaker
• Project Lidar onto Camera Frames (Jupyter notebook) by Keenan Burnett
  Amazon SageMaker

Publications

• Are We Ready for Radar to Replace Lidar in All-Weather Mapping and Localization? by K Burnett, Y Wu, D J Yoon, A P Schoellig, T D Barfoot
  
• Boreas: A multi-season autonomous driving dataset by K Burnett, D J Yoon, Y Wu, A Z Li, H Zhang, S Lu, J Qian, W Tseng, A Lambert, K YK Leung, A P Schoellig, Timothy D Barfoot
  
• Do we need to compensate for motion distortion and doppler effects in spinning radar navigation? by K Burnett, A P Schoellig, T D Barfoot
  
• Need for Speed: Fast Correspondence-Free Lidar Odometry Using Doppler Velocity by D J Yoon, K Burnett, J Laconte, Y Chen, H Vhavle, S Kammel, J Reuther, T D Barfoot
  
• Picking up speed: Continuous-time Lidar-only odometry using doppler velocity measurements by Y Wu, D J Yoon, K Burnett, S Kammel, Y Chen, H Vhavle, T D Barfoot
  
• Radar odometry combining probabilistic estimation and unsupervised feature learning by K Burnett, D J Yoon, A P Schoellig, T D Barfoot
  

Scottish Public Sector LiDAR Dataset

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
  

nuPlan

Tutorials

• nuPlan Advacned Model Training by Motional
  
  
• nuPlan Framework by Motional
  
  
• nuPlan Planner Tutorial by Motional
  
  
• nuPlan Scenario Visualization by Motional
  
  
• nuPlan Sensor Data Tutorial by Motional
  
  

Tools & Applications

• nuPlan devkit by Motional
  

Publications

• NuPlan: A closed-loop ML-based planning benchmark for autonomous vehicles by Holger Caesar, Juraj Kabzan, Kok Seang Tan, Whye Kit Fong, Eric Wolff, Alex Lang, Luke Fletcher, Oscar Beijbom, Sammy Omari
  

Argoverse

Tutorials

• Argoverse 2 API by Argoverse Authors
  

Tools & Applications

• conda-forge package for `av2` by Argoverse Authors
  
• PyPi package for `av2` by Argoverse Authors
  

Publications

• Argoverse 2: Next Generation Datasets for Self-Driving Perception and Forecasting by Benjamin Wilson, William Qi, Tanmay Agarwal, John Lambert, Jagjeet Singh, Siddhesh Khandelwal, Bowen Pan, Ratnesh Kumar, Andrew Hartnett, Jhony Kaesemodel Pontes, Deva Ramanan, Peter Carr, James Hays
  
• Argoverse: 3D Tracking and Forecasting With Rich Maps by Ming-Fang Chang, John Lambert, Patsorn Sangkloy, Jagjeet Singh, Slawomir Bak, Andrew Hartnett, De Wang, Peter Carr, Simon Lucey, Deva Ramanan, James Hays
  
• Trust, but Verify: Cross-Modality Fusion for HD Map Change Detection by John Lambert, James Hays
  

KyFromAbove on AWS

Tutorials

• KyFromAbove Bulk Download Area of Interest from Tile Index by Ian Horn
  
  Amazon S3
• KyFromAbove County Bulk Download by Ian Horn
  
  Amazon S3

Publications

• A New View of Kentucky's Cities by Kent Anness
  
• KyFromAbove is democratizing key data in Kentucky by Matt Collins
  
• KyTopo! Kentucky's New Topographic Map Series by Kent Anness
  

NASA / USGS Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter Cloud Optimized Point Cloud

Tutorials

• Discovering and Downloading Data via the Command Line by J. Laura
  
• Discovering and Downloading Data with Python by J. Laura
  
• Querying for Data in an ROI and Loading it into QGIS by J. Laura
  

Tools & Applications

• Point Data Abstraction Library (PDAL) by PDAL Contributors
  
• PySTAC Client by PySTAC-Client Contributors
  

Prefeitura Municipal de São Paulo (PMSP) LiDAR Point Cloud

Tools & Applications

• Entwine by Hobu, Inc.
  
• Fusion by US Department of Agriculture - Forest Service
  
• LAStools by rapidlasso GmbH, GERMANY
  
• PDAL - Point Data Abstraction Library by PDAL Contributors
  

Publications

• Describing the Vertical Structure of Informal Settlements on the Basis of LiDAR Data – A Case Study for Favelas (Slums) in Sao Paulo City by S. C. L. Ribeiro, M. Jarzabek-Rychard, J. P. Cintra, H.-G. Maas
  

RACECAR Dataset

Tutorials

• RACECAR Tutorials - nuScenes by John Chrosniak
  
  
• RACECAR Tutorials - ROS2 Localization by Amar Kulkarni
  
• RACECAR Tutorials - ROS2 Visualization by Amar Kulkarni, Utkarsh Chirimar
  

Tools & Applications

• rosbag2nuscenes conversion library by John Chrosniak, Emory Ducote, John Link, Madhur Behl
  

Publications

• RACECAR--The Dataset for High-Speed Autonomous Racing by Amar Kulkarni, John Chrosniak, Emory Ducote, Florian Sauerbeck, Andrew Saba, Utkarsh Chirimar, John Link, Marcello Cellina, and Madhur Behl
  

Vermont Open Geospatial on AWS

Tutorials

• Imagery Program FAQs by Vermont Center for Geographic Information
  
• Lidar Program FAQs by Vermont Center for Geographic Information
  

Tools & Applications

• Elevation Page - Vermont Open Geodata Portal by Vermont Center for Geographic Information
  
• Imagery Page - Vermont Open Geodata Portal by Vermont Center for Geographic Information
  
• Landcover Page - Vermont Open Geodata Portal by Vermont Center for Geographic Information
  
• Vermont AWS S3 Open Data Bucket Browser - Elevation by Vermont Center for Geographic Information
  
• Vermont AWS S3 Open Data Bucket Browser - Imagery by Vermont Center for Geographic Information
  
• Vermont AWS S3 Open Data Bucket Browser - Landcover by Vermont Center for Geographic Information
  

AG-LOAM Dataset

Tools & Applications

• Source code of the LiDAR-only odometry and mapping system by Hanzhe Teng et al.
  

Publications

• Adaptive LiDAR Odometry and Mapping for Autonomous Agricultural Mobile Robots in Unmanned Farms by Hanzhe Teng, Yipeng Wang, Dimitrios Chatziparaschis, Konstantinos Karydis
  
• Adaptive LiDAR Odometry and Mapping for Autonomous Agricultural Mobile Robots in Unmanned Farms by Hanzhe Teng, Yipeng Wang, Dimitrios Chatziparaschis, Konstantinos Karydis
  

CitrusFarm Dataset

Tools & Applications

• Python script to download this dataset by Hanzhe Teng et al.
  
• Python scripts used in the data collection and post-processing by Hanzhe Teng et al.
  

Publications

• Multimodal Dataset for Localization, Mapping and Crop Monitoring in Citrus Tree Farms by Hanzhe Teng, Yipeng Wang, Xiaoao Song and Konstantinos Karydis
  

Indiana Statewide Elevation Catalog

Tools & Applications

• ArcGIS Online Indiana Lidar Viewer by Indiana Geographic Information Office (IGIO)
  
• IGIO Elevation Opendata S3 Browser by Indiana Geographic Information Office (IGIO)
  

Publications

• Recording of 2025 - 2028 Indiana Imagery and Elevation Program Presentation by Indiana Geographic Information Office (IGIO)
  

Pohang Canal Dataset: A Multimodal Maritime Dataset for Autonomous Navigation in Restricted Waters

Tools & Applications

• Ros Message Player for Pohang Dataset by Dongha Chung
  
• ROS package for LiDAR to image of Pohang Canal Dataset by Dongha Chung
  

Publications

• Pohang Canal Dataset: A Multimodal Maritime Dataset for Autonomous Navigation in Restricted Waters by Dongha Chung, Jonghwi Kim, Changyu Lee, Jinwhan Kim
  

Aurora Multi-Sensor Dataset

Tutorials

• Introduction to Visualizing Sensor Types (Jupyter notebook) by Andrei Bârsan (note: Aurora makes no representations as to the accuracy or functionality of the tutorial)
  Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab

Publications

• "Pit30M: A benchmark for global localization in the age of self-driving cars", in 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 4477-4484) by Martinez, J., Doubov, S., Fan, J., Bârsan, I. A., Wang, S., Máttyus, G., Urtasun, R.
  

Collection of open nation-scale LiDAR datasets

Tutorials

• How to download data with FlaiHub by Flai
  

Tools & Applications

• FlaiHub - web application for accessing, browsing and processing open LiDAR datasets by Flai
  

Ford Multi-AV Seasonal Dataset

Tutorials

• Autonomous Driving Data Service (ADDS) by Ajay Vohra, Amazon
  Amazon EKSAmazon RedshiftAmazon S3Amazon FSx
• Ford AV Dataset Tutorial by Ford Motor Company
  

A2D2: Audi Autonomous Driving Dataset

Tutorials

• Autonomous Driving Data Service (ADDS) by Ajay Vohra, Amazon
  Amazon EKSAmazon RedshiftAmazon S3Amazon FSx

MAN TruckScenes

Tutorials

• TruckScenes devkit tutorial by Felix Fent, Fabian Kuttenreich, Florian Ruch, Farija Rizwin
  
  

Tools & Applications

• PyPi package by Felix Fent, Fabian Kuttenreich, Florian Ruch, Farija Rizwin
  
• TruckScenes devkit by Felix Fent, Fabian Kuttenreich, Florian Ruch, Farija Rizwin
  

Publications

• MANTruckScenes: A multimodal dataset for autonomous trucking in diverse conditions by Felix Fent, Fabian Kuttenreich, Florian Ruch, Farija Rizwin, et al
  

Multi-robot, Multi-Sensor, Multi-Environment Event Dataset (M3ED)

Publications

• M3ED: Multi-Robot, Multi-Sensor, Multi-Environment Event Dataset by Chaney K, Cladera F, et al.
  

NOAA Coastal Lidar Data

Tools & Applications

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

New Jersey Statewide LiDAR

Tutorials

• 3D Visualization by stephanie.bosits@tech.nj.us
  

Virtual Shizuoka, 3D Point Cloud Data

Tutorials

• Tutorial of handling LAS format point cloud data by AIGID