U.S. Coastal Lidar Elevation Data - Including The Great Lakes And Territories, 1996 - Present

Office for Coastal Management
Data Set (DS) | ID: 48242 | Published / External
Created: 2017-11-14   |   Last Modified: 2023-10-17

Parent: ParentRecords
Project (PRJ) | ID: 37236

ID: 48242
Data Set (DS)

* Discovery
• First Pass
» Metadata Rubric

Item Identification

* » Title U.S. Coastal Lidar Elevation Data - Including The Great Lakes And Territories, 1996 - Present
Short Name NGDA OCM lidar holdings parent
* Status On Going
Creation Date 1999
Revision Date 2023-09-01
• Publication Date 1999
* » Abstract

Many different partners and groups, and several Center-led data projects, have contributed to the lidar data collection housed and distributed by the NOAA Office for Coastal Management. The data span more than two decades and were collected using many different sensors. The collection includes data from topographic and bathymetric lidar sensors. Data are available for all of the coastal states and range from shoreline strips to full county coverage. The products have been delivered to the Center in various formats, projections, datums, and units. Once received, the data are reviewed, checked for errors, and standardized to LAZ format, geographic coordinates and ellipsoid heights in meters. Data are on a NAD83 or ITRF realization depending upon the collection specifics.
* Purpose

Lidar data is used to study the surface of the earth for elevation, erosion, inundation, flooding, and coastal hazards applications.
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Other Citation Details
• Supplemental Information
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Keywords

Theme Keywords

Thesaurus Keyword
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > TOPOGRAPHY > TERRAIN ELEVATION
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > BATHYMETRY > COASTAL BATHYMETRY
ISO 19115 Topic Category elevation
   
   
   

Temporal Keywords

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* Spatial Keywords

Thesaurus Keyword
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
   
   
   

Stratum Keywords

Thesaurus Keyword
   
   
   

Instrument Keywords

Thesaurus Keyword
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Instrument Keywords LIDAR > Light Detection and Ranging
   
   
   

Platform Keywords

Thesaurus Keyword
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Platform Keywords Airplane > Airplane
   
   
   

Physical Location

• » Organization Office for Coastal Management
• » City Charleston
• » State/Province SC
• Country  
• » Location Description

Data Set Information

* Data Set Scope Code Data Set
• Data Set Type Binary
• Maintenance Frequency As Needed
Maintenance Note
» Data Presentation Form Point cloud (Digital)
• Entity Attribute Overview
Entity Attribute Detail Citation
Entity Attribute Detail URL  
Distribution Liability

Any conclusions drawn from the analysis of this information are not the responsibility of NOAA, the Office for Coastal Management, or its partners.
Data Set Credit  

Support Roles

» At least one Distributor Org, one Metadata Contact, one Point of Contact, and one Data Steward should be listed.
* » Support Role Data Steward
* » Date Effective From 1999
Date Effective To
Organization NOAA Office for Coastal Management (NOAA/OCM)
Address 2234 South Hobson Ave
Charleston, SC 29405-2413
Email Address coastal.info@noaa.gov
Phone (843) 740-1202
Fax  
Mobile  
URL https://coast.noaa.gov
Business Hours  
Contact Instructions
* » Support Role Distributor
* » Date Effective From 1999
Date Effective To
Organization NOAA Office for Coastal Management (NOAA/OCM)
Address 2234 South Hobson Ave
Charleston, SC 29405-2413
Email Address coastal.info@noaa.gov
Phone (843) 740-1202
Fax  
Mobile  
URL https://coast.noaa.gov
Business Hours  
Contact Instructions
* » Support Role Metadata Contact
* » Date Effective From 1999
Date Effective To
Organization NOAA Office for Coastal Management (NOAA/OCM)
Address 2234 South Hobson Ave
Charleston, SC 29405-2413
Email Address coastal.info@noaa.gov
Phone (843) 740-1202
Fax  
Mobile  
URL https://coast.noaa.gov
Business Hours  
Contact Instructions
* » Support Role Point of Contact
* » Date Effective From 1999
Date Effective To
Organization NOAA Office for Coastal Management (NOAA/OCM)
Address 2234 South Hobson Ave
Charleston, SC 29405-2413
Email Address coastal.info@noaa.gov
Phone (843) 740-1202
Fax  
Mobile  
URL https://coast.noaa.gov
Business Hours  
Contact Instructions
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* » Date Effective From
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* » Contact
* Contact Instructions
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* » Date Effective From
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* » Contact
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* » Date Effective From
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* Contact Instructions

Extents

Currentness Reference Ground Condition

Extent Group 1

Extent Description

Extent Group 1 / Geographic Area 1

* » W° Bound -178.3
* » E° Bound -64.5
* » N° Bound 68.35
* » S° Bound -14.56
* » Description

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Extent Group 1 / Time Frame 1

* » Time Frame Type Continuing
* » Start 1996
End  
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Description

Extent Group 2

Extent Description

Western Pacific Territories

Extent Group 2 / Geographic Area 1

* » W° Bound 144.6166666666
* » E° Bound 144.9625
* » N° Bound 13.68583333333
* » S° Bound 13.22416666667
* » Description

Guam

Extent Group 2 / Geographic Area 2

* » W° Bound 145.11666666667
* » E° Bound 146.08333333333
* » N° Bound 16.03
* » S° Bound 14.0475
* » Description

Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands

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* » Time Frame Type Continuing
* » Start 2006
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Spatial Information

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Vector Representation Used? Yes
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Reference Systems

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Access Information

Data License  
Data License URL  
Data License Statement
* » Security Class Unclassified
* Security Classification System
Security Handling Description
• Data Access Policy
» Data Access Procedure

Lidar data can be obtained on-line at the following URL: http://www.coast.noaa.gov/dataviewer/ The lidar data is dynamically generated based on user-specified parameters.;
• » Data Access Constraints

None
• Data Use Constraints

Users should be aware that temporal changes may have occurred since this data set was collected and some parts of this data may no longer represent actual surface conditions. Users should not use this data for critical applications without a full awareness of its limitations.
Metadata Access Constraints
Metadata Use Constraints

Distribution Information

Start Date 2023-09-01
End Date Present
» Download URL https://noaa-nos-coastal-lidar-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/entwine/stac/catalog.json
Distributor NOAA Office for Coastal Management (NOAA/OCM) (1999 - Present)
File Name catalog.json
Description

SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) for datasets that are in entwine point tile (EPT) format. Not all datasets in this collection are in EPT format. In particular, most topobathy datasets are not because EPT does not properly represent the classification numbers used for bathymetry points in the ASPRS LAS topobathy domain profile.
File Date/Time  
File Type (Deprecated) json
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File Size  
Application Version  
Compression Uncompressed
Review Status  
Start Date 2014
End Date Present
» Download URL https://noaa-nos-coastal-lidar-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/laz/index.html
Distributor NOAA Office for Coastal Management (NOAA/OCM) (1999 - Present)
File Name  
Description

Table of download access links for each dataset in the collection.

File Date/Time  
File Type (Deprecated) LAZ
Distribution Format LAS/LAZ - LASer
File Size  
Application Version  
Compression Uncompressed
Review Status  
Start Date 1999
End Date Present
» Download URL https://coast.noaa.gov/dataviewer
Distributor NOAA Office for Coastal Management (NOAA/OCM) (1999 - Present)
File Name  
Description

Online application to create customized products from the data. Allows subsetting, reprojection, datum change, and derived product generation. Data are processed and a link is provided to download the results.
File Date/Time  
File Type (Deprecated) Zip
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» Download URL
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» Download URL
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Archive Information

Location
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File Name
URL
Description
DOI
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Location
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URL
Description
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Location
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URL
Description
DOI
Archive Date
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URLs

URL https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/data/coastallidar.html
Name Coastal Lidar Data Page
URL Type Online Resource
File Resource Format html
Description

General description of the Coastal Lidar Datasets with links to related resources. These are the topographic datasets.
URL https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/data/jalbtcx.html
Name Coastal Topobathy Lidar (JALBTCX)
URL Type Online Resource
File Resource Format html
Description

General description of the Coastal Topobathy Lidar datasets with links to related resources. These are generally produced by the Joint Airborne Lidar Technical Center of eXpertise (JALBTCX) parntership.
URL https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast
Name Digital Coast homepage
URL Type Online Resource
File Resource Format html
Description

Coastal management resources, including data, tools, and training.
URL https://maps.coast.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/DAV/ElevationFootprints/MapServer
Name Map services
URL Type Online Resource
File Resource Format  
Description

Map services with data footprints and ancillary information about each dataset.
URL
Name
URL Type
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Description
URL
Name
URL Type
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Description
URL
Name
URL Type
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Description

Activity Log

Activity Time 2017-08-07
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Responsible Party  
Description

Date that the source FGDC record was last modified.
Activity Time 2017-11-14
Activity Type  
Responsible Party  
Description

Converted from FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (version FGDC-STD-001-1998) using 'fgdc_to_inport_xml.pl' script. Contact Tyler Christensen (NOS) for details.
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Issues

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Issue

Technical Environment

Description  
 

Data Quality

Representativeness
Accuracy
Analytical Accuracy
Horizontal Positional Accuracy
Vertical Positional Accuracy

Vertical accuracy varies by dataset. Most datasets collected since 2015 will have 19.6 cm at 95% confidence or better vertically determined using GNSS based ground survey points.
Quantitation Limits
Bias
Comparability
Completeness Measure
Precision
Analytical Precision
Field Precision
Sensitivity
Detection Limit
Completeness Report
Conceptual Consistency
» Quality Control Procedures Employed

Data Management

» Have Resources for Management of these Data Been Identified? Yes
» Approximate Percentage of Budget for these Data Devoted to Data Management Unknown
» Do these Data Comply with the Data Access Directive? Yes
» Is Access to the Data Limited Based on an Approved Waiver? No
» If Distributor (Data Hosting Service) is Needed, Please Indicate  
» Approximate Delay Between Data Collection and Dissemination  
» If Delay is Longer than Latency of Automated Processing, Indicate Under What Authority Data Access is Delayed
» Actual or Planned Long-Term Data Archive Location NCEI-NC
» Approximate Delay Between Data Collection and Archiving  
» How Will the Data Be Protected from Accidental or Malicious Modification or Deletion Prior to Receipt by the Archive?

Source data are backed up to the Azure cloud or the received hard drives are stored. After ingestion, data are also backed up to Azure on a weekly basis.

Lineage

» Lineage Statement

Data are received from contracted collections, other NOAA offices, or other federal, state, or local agencies. The data are standardized for ingest into the Digital Coast Data Access Viewer and made available to the public.

Sources

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Process Steps

Process Step Number 1
» Description

Lidar data are obtained from another source or through NOAA contract. Information about the data is gathered, usually from metadata and project reports from the lidar provider. The primary information necessary includes:

1) projection

2) datums

3) geoid model

4) acquisition dates

5) units

6) classification scheme

7) vertical accuracy
Process Date/Time  
Process Contact NOAA Office for Coastal Management (NOAA/OCM)
Phone (Voice) (843) 740-1202
Email Address coastal.info@noaa.gov
Source  
Process Step Number 2
» Description

Data are standardized to geographic coordinates of the horizontal datum they originated in. Vertical values are converted to ellipsoid heights in meters by reversing the datum operation that was originally applied. Data are converted to LAZ format if they are not already in it.
Process Date/Time  
Process Contact NOAA Office for Coastal Management (NOAA/OCM)
Phone (Voice) (843) 740-1202
Email Address coastal.info@noaa.gov
Source  
Process Step Number 3
» Description

Data are ingested into the Digital Coast Data Access Viewer. This includes:

1) verification that the point classifications found match the expected classifications based on the metadata or reports.

2) data fall within the expected bounds.

3) vertical ranges are recorded for each data tile and point class.

4) geographic bounds for each tile are recorded.

5) point classification table used is recorded.
Process Date/Time  
Process Contact NOAA Office for Coastal Management (NOAA/OCM)
Phone (Voice) (843) 740-1202
Email Address coastal.info@noaa.gov
Source  
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Acquisition Information

Instruments

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Catalog Details

Catalog Item ID 48242
Metadata Record Created By Anne Ball
Metadata Record Created 2017-11-14 14:33+0000
Metadata Record Last Modified By SysAdmin InPortAdmin
» Metadata Record Last Modified 2023-10-17 16:12+0000
Metadata Record Published 2017-11-16
Owner Org OCM
Metadata Publication Status Published Externally
Do Not Publish? N
Metadata Workflow State Published / External
Metadata Last Review Date 2017-11-16
Metadata Review Frequency 1 Year
Metadata Next Review Date 2018-11-16
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