2014 OLC Lidar: Colville, WA

WSI, a Quantum Spatial company, has collected Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data for the Oregon LiDAR Consortium (OLC) Colville study area. This study area is located in northeastern Washington, abutting Canada.

The collection of high resolution geographic data is part of an ongoing pursuit to amass a library of information accessible to government agencies as well as the general public.

In August 2014 WSI employed remotesensing lasers in order to obtain a total area flown of 171,091 acres. Settings for LiDAR data capture produced an average resolution of at least eight pulses per square meter.

Final products created include LiDAR point cloud data, one meter digital elevation models of bare earth ground models, ground density rasters, and highest-hit returns, one-half meter intensity rasters, study area vector shapes, and corresponding statistical data. Final deliverables are projected in United States Forest Service (USFS) Region 6 Albers.

NOAA Office for Coastal Management has reprojected the point cloud data to geographic coordinates and ellipsoid heights for storage in the Digital Coast Data Access Viewer. Custom processing may have further changed the projection and datums. See the spatial reference information and processing steps for details.

Original contact information:

Contact Name: Jacob Edwards

Contact Org: DOGAMI

Phone: 971-673-1557

Email: jacob.edwards@oregon.gov

Provide high resolution terrain elevation data.

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A final reports for each delivery may be viewed at:

https://noaa-nos-coastal-lidar-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/laz/geoid18/6355/supplemental/

Any conclusions drawn from the analysis of this information are not the responsibility of the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI), FEMA, the Office for Coastal Management or its partners.

This data can be obtained on-line at the following URL: https://coast.noaa.gov/dataviewer

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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.

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Vertical Accuracy reporting is designed to meet guidelines presented in the National Standard for Spatial Data Accuracy (NSSDA) (FGDC, 1998) and the ASPRS Guidelines for Vertical Accuracy Reporting for LiDAR Data V1.0 (ASPRS, 2004). The statistical model compares known Ground Survey Points (GSPs) to the closest laser point. Vertical accuracy statistical analysis uses ground check points in open areas where the LiDAR system has a "very high probability" that the sensor will measure the ground surface and is evaluated at the 95th percentile.

For the Colville study area, 1,451 GSPs were collected. For this project, no independent survey data were collected, nor were reserved points collected for testing. As such, vertical accuracy statistics are reported as "Compiled to Meet."

For more information about the vertical accuracy, please refer to the delivery reports, listed above in the Supplemental_Information field

of this metadata record.

; Quantitative Value: 0.05 meters, Test that produced the value: Compiled to meet fundamental vertical accuracy value (FVA=1.96*RMSE) in meters.

LiDAR data has been collected and processed for all areas within the project study area.

Upon receipt from vendor (WSI), all LiDAR data was independently reviewed by staff from the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) to ensure project specifications were met. All data were inventoried for completeness and data were checked for quality, which included examining LiDAR data for errors associated with internal data consistency, model quality, and accuracy.