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USGS Lidar Point Cloud Eastern_Shore_Virginia_QL2_LiDAR_BAA LAS_S23_2806_20

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Start Date
2015-04-11
End Date
2015-04-24
File Modification Date
2023-05-11 20:38:02

Citation

U.S. Geological Survey, 20230511, USGS Lidar Point Cloud Eastern_Shore_Virginia_QL2_LiDAR_BAA LAS_S23_2806_20: U.S. Geological Survey.

Summary

Lidar (Light detection and ranging) discrete-return point cloud data are available in the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) LAS format. The LAS format is a standardized binary format for storing 3-dimensional point cloud data and point attributes along with header information and variable length records specific to the data. Millions of data points are stored as a 3-dimensional data cloud as a series of x (longitude), y (latitude) and z (elevation) points. A few older projects in this collection are in ASCII format. Please refer to http://www.asprs.org/Committee-General/LASer-LAS-File-Format-Exchange-Activities.html for additional information. This data set is a LAZ (compressed LAS) format file containing [...]

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U.S. Geological Survey
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U.S. Geological Survey
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U.S. Geological Survey
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U.S. Geological Survey

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Purpose

High-resolution digital elevation maps generated by airborne and stationary LiDAR have led to significant advances in geomorphology, the branch of geoscience concerned with the origin and evolution of Earth's surface topography. LiDAR provides unique characteristics relative to other remotely sensed data sources by providing three-dimensional feature information that cannot be derived from traditional imaging sensors.

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