2016 - 2017 FEMA Lidar DEM: Franklin and St. Lawrence Counties and Oneida Sub-Basin, NY ny2017_frank_st_lawr_dem_m9315_metadata eng Dataset EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > TOPOGRAPHY > TERRAIN ELEVATION elevation CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > NEW YORK VERTICAL LOCATION > LAND SURFACE LIDAR > Light Detection and Ranging Airplane > Airplane DEM > Digital Elevation Model DEM Product: These are Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data for Franklin, Lewis, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego, and St. Lawrence Counties, New York as part of the required deliverables for the New York 2016 Lidar project. Class 2 (ground) lidar points in conjunction with the hydro breaklines were used to create a 1-meter hydro-flattened raster DEM. Geographic Extent: Seven counties in New York, covering approximately 4,474 total square miles. East Zone AOI is Franklin and St. Lawrence Counties, Central Zone AOI is Lewis, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, and Oswego Counties. Dataset Description: New York FEMA 2016 QL2 Lidar project called for the planning, acquisition, processing, and derivative products of lidar data to be collected at a nominal pulse spacing (NPS) of 0.7 meters. Project specifications are based on the U.S. Geological Survey National Geospatial Program Base Lidar Specification, Version 1.2. Lidar data was delivered as flightline-extent unclassified LAS swaths, as processed classified LAS 1.4 files formatted to 4,597 individual 1,500-meter x 1,500-meter tiles, as tiled intensity imagery, and as tiled bare earth DEMs; all tiled to the same 1,500-meter x 1,500-meter schema. Continuous breaklines were produced in Esri file geodatabase format. Contours with a 1-foot interval were produced in Esri file geodatabase format, tiled to the same 1,500-meter x 1,500-meter schema. Ground Conditions: Lidar was collected in winter/spring of 2016/2017, while no snow was on the ground and rivers were at or below normal levels. In order to post process the lidar data to meet task order specifications and meet ASPRS vertical accuracy guidelines, Quantum Spatial, Inc. established a total of 76 ground control points that were used to calibrate the lidar to known ground locations established throughout the New York East Zone (Franklin and St. Lawrence Counties) project area. An additional 71 independent accuracy checkpoints, 71 in Bare Earth and Urban landcovers (59 NVA points), 59 in Forested, Brushland/Trees, and Tall Weeds/Crops categories (59 VVA points), were used to assess the vertical accuracy of the data. Quantum Spatial, Inc. established a total of 30 ground control points that were used to calibrate the lidar to known ground locations established throughout the New York Central Zone (Lewis, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, and Oswego Counties) project area. An additional 68 independent accuracy checkpoints, 43 in Bare Earth and Urban landcovers (43 NVA points), 25 in Forested, Brushland/Trees, and Tall Weeds/Crops categories (25 VVA points), were used to assess the vertical accuracy of the data. These checkpoints were not used to calibrate or post process the data. The NOAA Office for Coastal Management (OCM) downloaded the 5948 DEM files (4597 files for the East Zone AOI and 1351 files for the Central Zone AOI) from the New York State GIS site. The data were downloaded from these URLs: ftp://ftp.gis.ny.gov/elevation/DEM/FEMA_FranklinStLawrence2016/ and ftp://ftp.gis.ny.gov/elevation/DEM/FEMA_OneidaSubbasin2016/. The data were processed to the Data Access Viewer (DAV) and http. In addition to these bare earth Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data, the lidar point data that these DEM data were created from and the breaklines are also available. These data are available for custom download at the link provided in the URL section of this metadata record. OCM Partners OCM Partners https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/64733 https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/49404 https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/64745 northlimit=45.018775; eastlimit=-73.951082; southlimit=42.773896; westlimit=-76.384505; start=2016-11-12; end=2017-05-12; start=2016-11-14; end=2017-04-23; None 2017-10-13