USGS 3DEP LiDAR Point Clouds

Description

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 complete in coverage, as sources with incomplete or missing CRS, will not have an ETP tile generated. Resource names in both buckets correspond to the USGS project names.

Update Frequency

Periodically

License

US Government Public Domain https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-are-terms-uselicensing-map-services-and-data-national-map

Documentation

https://github.com/hobu/usgs-lidar/

Managed By

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Contact

https://github.com/hobu/usgs-lidar

How to Cite

USGS 3DEP LiDAR Point Clouds was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/usgs-lidar.

Usage Examples

Tutorials

• Extracting buildings and roads from AWS Open Data using Amazon SageMaker by Yunzhi Shi, Tianyu Zhang, and Xin Chen
  SageMaker
• Using Lambda Layers with USGS 3DEP LiDAR Point Clouds by Howard Butler
  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