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OCM Partners, 2024: 2009 USACE NCMP Topobathy Lidar DEM: California, https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/67050.
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Abstract

These files contain rasterized topographic and bathymetric lidar elevations generated from data collected by the SHOALS-1000T bathymetric and the Leica ALS60 topographic lidar systems along the coast of California. Lidar data coverage generally extends along the coastline from the waterline inland 500 meters (topography) and offshore 1,000 meters or to laser extinction. Exclusively on areas where Fugro Pelagos acquired or planned to acquire multibeam sonar data by December 31, 2009, data coverage extends from the shoreline either to the 10-m contour, the 20-m contour or the landward extend of the multibeam data plus an additional 100 m offshore. Native lidar data is not generally in a format accessible to most Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Specialized in-house and commercial software packages are used to process the native lidar data into 3-dimensional positions that can be imported into GIS software for visualization and further analysis.The 3-D position data are used to generate a series of gridded file products, with each covering approximately 5 kilometers of shoreline. The grid file index is provided by the shape file, "CA_Boxes", and the numbers used to identify files are in the "Box" field of the shape file. The data file naming convention is based on the year, project, area name, vertical datum, "Box" number and product type. An example file name is "2009_NCMP_CA_001_BareEarth_1mGrid.tif", where 2009 is the project year, is the project under which data were collected, is the area of data collection, 001 is the "Box" number and is the product type. A letter appended to the file name means a subset of data collected has been processed separately due to significant morphology changes during the period of data acquisition.

In addition to these bare earth Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data, the lidar point data that these DEM data were created from, are also available. These data are available for custom download at the link provided in the URL section of this metadata record.

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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be aware that temporal changes may have occurred since this data set was collected and some parts of this data may no longer represent actual surface conditions.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.

BATHYMETRY, COASTAL ELEVATION, DIGITAL ELEVATION/TERRAIN MODEL (DEM), elevation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, oceans, SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY, TERRAIN ELEVATION

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Point of Contact
NOAA Office for Coastal Management (NOAA/OCM)
coastal.info@noaa.gov
(843) 740-1202

Metadata Contact
NOAA Office for Coastal Management (NOAA/OCM)
coastal.info@noaa.gov
(843) 740-1202

Geographic Area 1

-121.958705° W, -117.118905° E, 36.662179° N, 32.534379° S

Time Frame 1
2009-09-30 - 2009-10-28

Title:	2009 USACE NCMP Topobathy Lidar DEM: California
Short Name:	usace2009_ca_dem_m9488_metadata
Status:	Completed
Creation Date:	2009
Abstract:	These files contain rasterized topographic and bathymetric lidar elevations generated from data collected by the SHOALS-1000T bathymetric and the Leica ALS60 topographic lidar systems along the coast of California. Lidar data coverage generally extends along the coastline from the waterline inland 500 meters (topography) and offshore 1,000 meters or to laser extinction. Exclusively on areas where Fugro Pelagos acquired or planned to acquire multibeam sonar data by December 31, 2009, data coverage extends from the shoreline either to the 10-m contour, the 20-m contour or the landward extend of the multibeam data plus an additional 100 m offshore. Native lidar data is not generally in a format accessible to most Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Specialized in-house and commercial software packages are used to process the native lidar data into 3-dimensional positions that can be imported into GIS software for visualization and further analysis.The 3-D position data are used to generate a series of gridded file products, with each covering approximately 5 kilometers of shoreline. The grid file index is provided by the shape file, "CA_Boxes", and the numbers used to identify files are in the "Box" field of the shape file. The data file naming convention is based on the year, project, area name, vertical datum, "Box" number and product type. An example file name is "2009_NCMP_CA_001_BareEarth_1mGrid.tif", where 2009 is the project year, is the project under which data were collected, is the area of data collection, 001 is the "Box" number and is the product type. A letter appended to the file name means a subset of data collected has been processed separately due to significant morphology changes during the period of data acquisition. In addition to these bare earth Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data, the lidar point data that these DEM data were created from, are also available. These data are available for custom download at the link provided in the URL section of this metadata record.
Purpose:	These data were collected as a part of the National Coastal Mapping Program (NCMP) to depict the elevations above and below the water line in the California coastal zone.
Supplemental Information:	High water turbidity in the survey area hindered the acquisition of bathymetric data in boxes 01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22 and 23 and resulted in incomplete coverage. Additionally, datasets collected on different times such that shoreline material had moved exceeding the accuracy tolerance, were not merged and rather separated as dataset "A" for the box number affected