Data Management Plan
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Data Management Plan
DMP Template v2.0.1 (2015-01-01)
Please provide the following information, and submit to the NOAA DM Plan Repository.Reference to Master DM Plan (if applicable)
As stated in Section IV, Requirement 1.3, DM Plans may be hierarchical. If this DM Plan inherits provisions from a higher-level DM Plan already submitted to the Repository, then this more-specific Plan only needs to provide information that differs from what was provided in the Master DM Plan.
1. General Description of Data to be Managed
NOAA Finger Lakes Topobathymetric lidar project data were collected by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) using a Riegl VQ-880-G sensor system. The NOAA Finger Lakes Topobathymetric project lidar acquisition was flown between 20190913 and 20191109 in 23 missions. The NOAA Finger Lakes topobathymetric lidar project dataset includes topobathymetric data in a LAS format 1.4, point data record format 6, with the following classifications in accordance with project specifications and the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) classification standards:
1 - unclassified
2 - ground
7 Withheld -low noise
18 Withheld - high noise
40 - bathymetric bottom or submerged topography
41 - water surface
43 - submerged feature
45 - water column
64 - Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV)
65 - overlap bathymetric bottom - temporally different from a separate lift
1 Withheld - edge clip
This dataset also includes lidar intensity values, number of returns, return number, time, and scan angle. The full NOAA Finger Lakes Topobathymetric Lidar project boundary extent covers 301,150 acres (~1,219 sqKm). LAS files were compiled in 500 m x 500 m tiles. The final classified lidar data were then transformed from ellipsoid (GRS80) to geoidal height (Geoid18) and used to create topobathymetric DEMs in GeoTIFF format with 1m pixel resolution. This project dataset represents an area covering 141 - 5000 m x 5000 m boundary-clipped DEM tiles
Notes: Only a maximum of 4000 characters will be included.
Notes: Data collection is considered ongoing if a time frame of type "Continuous" exists.
Notes: All time frames from all extent groups are included.
Bounding box is approximate. Data covers Finger Lakes.
Notes: All geographic areas from all extent groups are included.
(e.g., digital numeric data, imagery, photographs, video, audio, database, tabular data, etc.)
(e.g., satellite, airplane, unmanned aerial system, radar, weather station, moored buoy, research vessel, autonomous underwater vehicle, animal tagging, manual surveys, enforcement activities, numerical model, etc.)
2. Point of Contact for this Data Management Plan (author or maintainer)
Notes: The name of the Person of the most recent Support Role of type "Metadata Contact" is used. The support role must be in effect.
Notes: The name of the Organization of the most recent Support Role of type "Metadata Contact" is used. This field is required if applicable.
3. Responsible Party for Data Management
Program Managers, or their designee, shall be responsible for assuring the proper management of the data produced by their Program. Please indicate the responsible party below.
Notes: The name of the Person of the most recent Support Role of type "Data Steward" is used. The support role must be in effect.
4. Resources
Programs must identify resources within their own budget for managing the data they produce.
5. Data Lineage and Quality
NOAA has issued Information Quality Guidelines for ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information which it disseminates.
(describe or provide URL of description):
Process Steps:
- 2023-01-26 00:00:00 - Data for the NOAA Finger Lakes topobathymetric lidar project was acquired by NOAA using a Riegl VQ-880-G topobathymetric lidar system. All derived LAS data is referenced to: Horizontal Datum-NAD83(2011) epoch: 2010.00 Projection-UTM Zone 18N Horizontal Units-meters Vertical Datum-GRS80 Ellipsoid Vertical Units-meters This topobathymetric lidar dataset encompasses 6,179 - 500m x 500m tiles in New York and Vermont. After acquisition, NOAA performed the lidar extraction, calibration, and refraction for the NOAA Finger Lakes topobathymetric lidar data.
- NV5 was then contracted to perform post automated classification in addition to manual editing to review all classification and improve the final topobathymetric surface. NV5's LasMonkey was used to update LAS header information, including all projection and coordinate reference system information. The final lidar data are in LAS format 1.4 and point data record format 6. The final classification scheme is as follows: 1 - unclassified 2 - ground 7 Withheld -low noise 18 Withheld - high noise 40 - bathymetric bottom or submerged topography 41 - water surface 43 - submerged feature 45 - water column 64 - Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) 65 - overlap bathy bottom - temporally different from a separate lift 1 Withheld - edge clip
- 2023-01-26 00:00:00 - NV5 transformed the final lidar data from ellipsoid heights to orthometric heights referenced to NAVD88, Geoid 18 to create the final topobathymetric void clipped DEMs. The topobathymetric bare earth DEMs were output at 1 meter resolution in GeoTIFF format into 141 - 5000 m x 5000 m tiles. The Finger Lakes topobathymetric lidar project rasters are clipped to the extent of the project boundary and named according to project specifications. A bathymetric void shapefile was created to indicate areas where there was a lack of bathymetric returns. This shape was created by triangulating bathymetric bottom points with an edge length maximum of 4.56m to identify all areas greater then 9 square meters without bathymetric returns. This shapefile was used to clip and exclude interpolated elevation data from these areas in the bathymetric void clipped topobathymetric bare earth model.
- The NOAA Office for Coastal Management (OCM) received files in cloud optimized geotiff format (COG). These were indexed and processed to the Digital Coast.
(describe or provide URL of description):
6. Data Documentation
The EDMC Data Documentation Procedural Directive requires that NOAA data be well documented, specifies the use of ISO 19115 and related standards for documentation of new data, and provides links to resources and tools for metadata creation and validation.
Missing/invalid information:
- 1.7. Data collection method(s)
- 3.1. Responsible Party for Data Management
- 5.2. Quality control procedures employed
- 7.1.1. If data are not available or has limitations, has a Waiver been filed?
- 7.4. Approximate delay between data collection and dissemination
- 8.3. Approximate delay between data collection and submission to an archive facility
(describe or provide URL of description):
7. Data Access
NAO 212-15 states that access to environmental data may only be restricted when distribution is explicitly limited by law, regulation, policy (such as those applicable to personally identifiable information or protected critical infrastructure information or proprietary trade information) or by security requirements. The EDMC Data Access Procedural Directive contains specific guidance, recommends the use of open-standard, interoperable, non-proprietary web services, provides information about resources and tools to enable data access, and includes a Waiver to be submitted to justify any approach other than full, unrestricted public access.
None
Notes: The name of the Organization of the most recent Support Role of type "Distributor" is used. The support role must be in effect. This information is not required if an approved access waiver exists for this data.
Notes: This field is required if a Distributor has not been specified.
https://noaa-nos-coastal-lidar-pds.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/dem/NGS_FingerLakes_NY_DEM_2019_9827/
Notes: All URLs listed in the Distribution Info section will be included. This field is required if applicable.
Data is available online for bulk or custom downloads
Notes: This field is required if applicable.
8. Data Preservation and Protection
The NOAA Procedure for Scientific Records Appraisal and Archive Approval describes how to identify, appraise and decide what scientific records are to be preserved in a NOAA archive.
(Specify NCEI-MD, NCEI-CO, NCEI-NC, NCEI-MS, World Data Center (WDC) facility, Other, To Be Determined, Unable to Archive, or No Archiving Intended)
Notes: This field is required if archive location is World Data Center or Other.
Notes: This field is required if archive location is To Be Determined, Unable to Archive, or No Archiving Intended.
Notes: Physical Location Organization, City and State are required, or a Location Description is required.
Discuss data back-up, disaster recovery/contingency planning, and off-site data storage relevant to the data collection
Data is backed up to tape and to cloud storage.
9. Additional Line Office or Staff Office Questions
Line and Staff Offices may extend this template by inserting additional questions in this section.