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OCM Partners, 2024: 2011 Pacific Gas and Electric Diablo Canyon Power Plant (DCPP): Los Osos, CA Central Coast, https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/49645.

Item Identification

Title: 2011 Pacific Gas and Electric Diablo Canyon Power Plant (DCPP): Los Osos, CA Central Coast
Short Name: ca2011_pge_dcpp_los_osos_m3651_metadata
Status: Completed
Publication Date: 2014-05-19
Abstract:

The Diablo Canyon Power Plant (DCPP) LiDAR and Imagery datasets are comprised of three separate LiDAR surveys: Diablo Canyon (2010), Los Osos (2011), and San Simeon (2013). The DCPP Los Osos project study area is located in San Luis Obispo County, California, and encompasses approximately 170,000 acres (674.59 square kilometers). Watershed Sciences, Inc. (WSI) collected Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data across the project area from 17 March 2011 to 31 March 2011. The LiDAR survey utilized a Leica ALS60 sensor in a Cessna Caravan. The Leica system was set to acquire 105,900 laser pulses per second (i.e., 105.9 kHz pulse rate) and flown at 900 meters above ground level (AGL), capturing a scan angle of +/- 14 degrees from nadir when clouds and terrain permitted. With these flight parameters, the laser swath width is 449 m and the laser pulse footprint is 21 cm. These settings yield an average native pulse density of equal-to-or-more-than 8 pulses per square meter over terrestrial surfaces.

Purpose:

This survey was flown as part of the DCPP Long-Term Seismic Program (LTSP)

Notes:

10289

Supplemental Information:

Pacific Gas and Electric Company shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of these data. Data and related graphics (e.g., GIF or JPG format files) are not legal documents and are not intended to be used as such. The information contained in the data is dynamic and may change over time. The data are not better than the original sources from which they were derived. It is the responsibility of the data user to use the data appropriately and consistently within the limitations of geospatial data in general and these data in particular. The related graphics are intended to aid the data user in acquiring relevant data; it is not appropriate to use the related graphics as data. PG&E gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of these data. It is strongly recommended that these data are directly acquired from PG&E and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. Although these data have been processed successfully on computer systems by Pacific Gas and Electric and its authorized representatives, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the utility of the data on other systems for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. This disclaimer applies both to individual use of the data and aggregate use with other data.

A report for this project is available at:

https://noaa-nos-coastal-lidar-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/laz/geoid18/3651/supplemental/ca2011_pge_dcpp_los_osos_m3651_surveyreport.pdf

A footprint of this data set may be viewed in Google Earth at:

https://noaa-nos-coastal-lidar-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/laz/geoid18/3651/supplemental/ca2011_pge_dcpp_los_osos_m3651.kmz

Keywords

Theme Keywords

Thesaurus Keyword
ISO 19115 Topic Category
elevation
UNCONTROLLED
None Surface
None Terrain

Physical Location

Organization: Office for Coastal Management
City: Charleston
State/Province: SC

Data Set Information

Data Set Scope Code: Data Set
Maintenance Frequency: As Needed
Entity Attribute Overview:

The lidar classification are stored in LAZ format.: 1 - unclassified, 2 - ground

Entity Attribute Detail Citation:

All deliverables meet specifications in contract. LAS Files meet ASPRS Classification Standards

Distribution Liability:

Any conclusions drawn from the analysis of this information are not the responsibility of Watershed Sciences Inc, PGandE, Diablo Canyon Power Plant, OpenTopography.com, NOAA, the Office for Coastal Management or its partners.

Data Set Credit: Acknowledgement of the Pacific Gas and Electric would be appreciated in products derived from these data.

Support Roles

Data Steward

CC ID: 671079
Date Effective From: 2014-05-19
Date Effective To:
Contact (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
URL: https://coast.noaa.gov

Distributor

CC ID: 671081
Date Effective From: 2014-05-19
Date Effective To:
Contact (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
URL: https://coast.noaa.gov

Metadata Contact

CC ID: 671082
Date Effective From: 2014-05-19
Date Effective To:
Contact (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
URL: https://coast.noaa.gov

Point of Contact

CC ID: 671080
Date Effective From: 2014-05-19
Date Effective To:
Contact (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
URL: https://coast.noaa.gov

Extents

Currentness Reference: Publication Date

Extent Group 1

Extent Group 1 / Geographic Area 1

CC ID: 1135515
W° Bound: -120.88968525
E° Bound: -120.41361608
N° Bound: 35.37387188
S° Bound: 34.99532951

Extent Group 1 / Time Frame 1

CC ID: 1135514
Time Frame Type: Range
Start: 2011-03-17
End: 2011-03-31

Spatial Information

Spatial Representation

Representations Used

Vector: Yes

Access Information

Security Class: Unclassified
Data Access Procedure:

This data can be obtained on-line at the following URL: https://coast.noaa.gov/dataviewer/#/lidar/search/where:ID=3651

The data set 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. These data depict the heights at the time of the survey and are only accurate for that time

Distribution Information

Distribution 1

CC ID: 740519
Download URL: https://coast.noaa.gov/dataviewer/#/lidar/search/where:ID=3651
Distributor:
File Name: Customized Download
Description:

Create custom data files by choosing data area, product type, map projection, file format, datum, etc.

Distribution 2

CC ID: 740520
Download URL: https://noaa-nos-coastal-lidar-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/laz/geoid18/3651/index.html
Distributor:
File Name: Bulk Download
Description:

Simple download of data files.

URLs

URL 1

CC ID: 740522
URL: https://coast.noaa.gov/dataviewer
URL Type:
Online Resource

URL 2

CC ID: 740523
URL: https://coast.noaa.gov
URL Type:
Online Resource

URL 3

CC ID: 740524
URL: https://noaa-nos-coastal-lidar-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/laz/geoid18/3651/supplemental/ca2011_pge_dcpp_los_osos_m3651.kmz
Name: Browse Graphic
URL Type:
Browse Graphic
File Resource Format: kmz
Description:

This graphic shows the lidar coverage for the 2011 Los Osos project areas in San Luis Obispo and Monterey County in California

Activity Log

Activity Log 1

CC ID: 671101
Activity Date/Time: 2016-05-23
Description:

Date that the source FGDC record was last modified.

Activity Log 2

CC ID: 671100
Activity Date/Time: 2017-11-14
Description:

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

Activity Log 3

CC ID: 718188
Activity Date/Time: 2018-02-08
Description:

Partial upload of Positional Accuracy fields only.

Activity Log 4

CC ID: 740521
Activity Date/Time: 2018-03-13
Description:

Partial upload to move data access links to Distribution Info.

Data Quality

Horizontal Positional Accuracy:

RTK collects a relative error under 1.5cm for horizontal accuracy; Quantitative Value: 100 meters, Test that produced the value: Horizontal accuracy was tested by comparing the raw contours from each flightline against adjoining flightlines at specific points but was not tested against the data.

Vertical Positional Accuracy:

RMSE for Z = 0.028 m. The absolute vertical accuracy (RMSE) for the DCCP Los Osos survey is 2.8 cm and was calculated with an RTK sample six of 2,482 GPS measurements collected on hard surfaces distributed among multiple flight swaths.; Quantitative Value: 0.028 meters, Test that produced the value: The vertical accuracy of the LiDAR data is described as the mean and standard deviation (sigma) of divergence between LiDAR point coordinates and RTK ground survey point coordinates. To provide a sense of the model predictive power of the dataset, the root mean square error (RMSE) for vertical accuracy is also provided. These statistics assume the error distributions for x, y, and z are normally distributed, thus the skew and kurtosis of distributions are considered when evaluating error statistics.

Completeness Report:

complete

Conceptual Consistency:

none

Lineage

Sources

Technical Data Report

CC ID: 1135510
Publish Date: 2013-03-27
Extent Type: Discrete
Extent Start Date/Time: 2011-05-18
Source Contribution:

Survey data for aerotriangulation and data quality control performed by Jeff Little of Tetra Tech in California. | Source Geospatial Form: model | Type of Source Media: HDD

Process Steps

Process Step 1

CC ID: 1135511
Description:

1. Resolved kinematic corrections for aircraft position data using kinematic aircraft GPS and static ground GPS data.

Software: Waypoint GPS v.8.10, Trimble Geomatics Office v.1.62

2. Developed a smoothed best estimate of trajectory (SBET) file that blends post-processed aircraft position with attitude data. Sensor head position and

attitude were calculated throughout the survey. The SBET data were used extensively for laser point processing.

Software: IPAS v.1.35

3. Calculated laser point position by associating SBET position to each laser point return time, scan angle, intensity, etc. Created raw laser point cloud data for the entire survey in *.las (ASPRS v. 1.2) format.

Software: ALS Post Processing Software v.2.70

4. Imported raw laser points into manageable blocks (less than 500 MB) to perform manual relative accuracy calibration and filter for pits/birds. Ground points were then classified for individual flight lines (to be used for relative accuracy testing and calibration).

Software: TerraScan v.10.009

5. Using ground classified points per each flight line, the relative accuracy was tested. Automated line-to-line calibrations were then performed for system

attitude parameters (pitch, roll, heading), mirror flex (scale) and GPS/IMU drift. Calibrations were performed on ground classified points from paired flight

lines. Every flight line was used for relative accuracy calibration.

Software: TerraMatch v.10.006

6. Position and attitude data were imported. Resulting data were classified as ground and non-ground points. Statistical absolute accuracy was assessed via

direct comparisons of ground classified points to ground RTK survey data. Data were then converted to orthometric elevations (NAVD88) by applying a

Geoid03 correction. Software: TerraScan v.10.009, TerraModeler v.10.004

Process Step 2

CC ID: 1135512
Description:

The NOAA Office for Coastal Management (OCM) received the files in laz format via download from the OpenTopography online repository. The files contained lidar elevation and intensity measurements. The data were in UTM Zone 10, NAVD88 (orthometric) heights in feet. OCM performed the following processing for data storage and Digital Coast provisioning purposes:

1. The data were converted from UTM 10 coordinates to geographic coordinates.

2. The data were converted from NAVD88 (orthometric) heights in feet to GRS80 (ellipsoid) heights in meters using Geoid 03.

3. The LAS data were sorted by latitude and the headers were updated.

Process Date/Time: 2014-05-02 00:00:00

Catalog Details

Catalog Item ID: 49645
GUID: gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:49645
Metadata Record Created By: Anne Ball
Metadata Record Created: 2017-11-15 15:21+0000
Metadata Record Last Modified By: SysAdmin InPortAdmin
Metadata Record Last Modified: 2022-08-09 17:11+0000
Metadata Record Published: 2022-03-16
Owner Org: OCMP
Metadata Publication Status: Published Externally
Do Not Publish?: N
Metadata Last Review Date: 2022-03-16
Metadata Review Frequency: 1 Year
Metadata Next Review Date: 2023-03-16