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   <dc:title>2018 USGS Lidar DEM: Bayou Nezpique, LA</dc:title>
   <dcterms:alternative>la2018_bayou_nezpique_dem_m13763</dcterms:alternative>
   <dc:language xsi:type="dcterms:ISO639-3">eng</dc:language>
   <dc:type xsi:type="dcterms:DCMIType">Dataset</dc:type>
   <dc:subject>EARTH SCIENCE &gt; LAND SURFACE &gt; TOPOGRAPHY &gt; TERRAIN ELEVATION</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>EARTH SCIENCE &gt; LAND SURFACE &gt; TOPOGRAPHY &gt; TERRAIN ELEVATION &gt; DIGITAL ELEVATION/TERRAIN MODEL (DEM)</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>elevation</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>CONTINENT &gt; NORTH AMERICA &gt; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>CONTINENT &gt; NORTH AMERICA &gt; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA &gt; LOUISIANA</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>VERTICAL LOCATION &gt; LAND SURFACE</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>LIDAR &gt; Light Detection and Ranging</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Airplane &gt; Airplane</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Continent &gt; North America &gt; United States Of America &gt; Louisiana &gt; Acadia Parish</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Continent &gt; North America &gt; United States Of America &gt; Louisiana &gt; Allen Parish</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Continent &gt; North America &gt; United States Of America &gt; Louisiana &gt; Bayou Nezpique</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Continent &gt; North America &gt; United States Of America &gt; Louisiana &gt; Calcasieu Parish</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Continent &gt; North America &gt; United States Of America &gt; Louisiana &gt; Evangeline Parish</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Continent &gt; North America &gt; United States Of America &gt; Louisiana &gt; Jefferson Davis Parish</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Continent &gt; North America &gt; United States Of America &gt; Louisiana &gt; Lafayette Parish</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Continent &gt; North America &gt; United States Of America &gt; Louisiana &gt; Rapides Parish</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Continent &gt; North America &gt; United States Of America &gt; Louisiana &gt; St. Landry Parish</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Continent &gt; North America &gt; United States Of America &gt; Louisiana &gt; Vermilion Parish</dc:subject>
   <dcterms:abstract>The bare-earth DEM was produced to meet the specifications detailed in the USGS National Geospatial Program Lidar Base Specification, version 1.2 (2014). This project, overall, consists of a spring 2018 lidar survey collected over an Area of Interest (AOI) in south-central Louisiana covering a total of approximately 3,772 square miles and includes the parishes of Acadia, Jefferson Davis, Allen, Evangeline and portions of St. Landry, Lafayette, Vermillion, Rapides and Calcasieu. Lidar data and derivative products were collected and processed to conform to the USGS National Geospatial Program Lidar Base Specification, version 1.2 (2014) at National Enhanced Elevation Assessment (NEEA) Quality Level 1 (QL1) with an Aggregate Nominal Pulse Spacing (ANPS) of 0.35 meters or less and Aggregate Nominal Point Density (ANPD) of 8 points per square meter or greater. Deliverable lidar products include: classified lidar point cloud, hydro-flattening breaklines, bare-earth digital elevation models (DEMs), and lidar intensity images.

This metadata record supports the data entry in the NOAA Digital Coast Data Access Viewer (DAV). For this data set, the DAV is leveraging the GeoTIFF files hosted by USGS on Amazon Web Services.</dcterms:abstract>
   <dc:publisher>OCM Partners</dc:publisher>
   <dc:creator>OCM Partners</dc:creator>
   <dc:identifier xsi:type="dcterms:URI">https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/78539</dc:identifier>
   <dcterms:isPartOf xsi:type="dcterms:URI">https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/49404</dcterms:isPartOf>
   <dcterms:references xsi:type="dcterms:URI">https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/60158</dcterms:references>
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            northlimit=31.05010987;
            eastlimit=-92.170772568;
            southlimit=29.841048215;
            westlimit=-93.132145881;
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   <dcterms:temporal xsi:type="dcterms:Period">
              start=2018-04-05;
              end=2018-06-08;
            </dcterms:temporal>
   <dcterms:accessRights>None</dcterms:accessRights>
   <dcterms:created xsi:type="dcterms:W3CDTF">2025</dcterms:created>
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