U.S. national categorical mapping of building heights by block group from Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data

This dataset is a categorical mapping of estimated mean building heights, by Census block group, in shapefile format for the conterminous United States. The data were derived from the NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, which collected “first return” (top of canopy and buildings) radar data at 30-m resolution in February, 2000 aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor. These data were processed here to estimate building heights nationally, and then aggregated to block group boundaries. The block groups were then categorized into six classes, ranging from “Low” to “Very High”, based on the mean and standard deviation breakpoints of the data. The data were evaluated in several ways, to include comparing them to a reference...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Block groups, Building heights, City planning, DSM, Elevation, All tags... National Water Quality Program, SRTM, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Urban areas, Fewer tags

Vertical Land Change, Chippewa, Eau Claire, Jackson, Monroe, Trempealeau, and Wood Counties, Wisconsin

The vertical land change activity focuses on the detection, analysis, and explanation of topographic change. These detection techniques include both quantitative methods, for example, using difference metrics derived from multi-temporal topographic digital elevation models (DEMs), such as, light detection and ranging (lidar), National Elevation Dataset (NED), Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IFSAR), and qualitative methods, for example, using multi-temporal aerial photography to visualize topographic change. The geographic study areas of this activity are in Chippewa, Eau Claire, Jackson, Monroe, Trempealeau, and Wood counties in west central Wisconsin. Available...

Types: Citation; Tags: Chippewa County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, DEM, Digital Elevation Model, Eau Claire County, Wi, All tags... Eau Claire County, Wi, IFSAR, Jackson County, WI, Jackson County, WI, LRS, Land Remote Sensing, Light Detection and Ranging, Monroe County, WI, Monroe County, WI, NED, National Elevation Dataset, SRTM, Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, Trempealeau County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI, U.S., U.S. Geological Survey, US, USA, USGS, United States, Vertical Land Change, Wisconsin, Wood Count, WI, Wood Count, WI, elevation, elevation, geoscientificInformation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, lidar, location, mining, society, Fewer tags

Vertical Land Change, Perry County, Kentucky

The vertical land change activity focuses on the detection, analysis, and explanation of topographic change. These detection techniques include both quantitative methods, for example, using difference metrics derived from multi-temporal topographic digital elevation models (DEMs), such as, light detection and ranging (lidar), National Elevation Dataset (NED), Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IFSAR), and qualitative methods, for example, using multi-temporal aerial photography to visualize topographic change. The geographic study area of this activity is Perry County, Kentucky. Available multi-temporal lidar, NED, SRTM, IFSAR, and other topographic elevation datasets,...

Types: Citation; Tags: DEM, Digital Elevation Model, IFSAR, KY, Kentucky, All tags... LRS, Land Remote Sensing, Light Detection and Ranging, NED, National Elevation Dataset, Perry County, Kentucky, Perry County, Kentucky, SRTM, Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, U.S., U.S. Geological Survey, US, USA, USGS, United States, Vertical Land Change, elevation, geoscientificInformation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, lidar, location, mining, society, surface mining, Fewer tags

Vertical Land Change, Itasca and St. Louis Counties, Minnesota

The vertical land change activity focuses on the detection, analysis, and explanation of topographic change. These detection techniques include both quantitative methods, for example, using difference metrics derived from multi-temporal topographic digital elevation models (DEMs), such as, light detection and ranging (lidar), National Elevation Dataset (NED), Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IFSAR), and qualitative methods, for example, using multi-temporal aerial photography to visualize topographic change. The geographic study areas of this activity are in Itasca and St. Louis counties in the northern Minnesota Mesabi Iron Range. Available multi-temporal lidar,...

Types: Citation; Tags: DEM, Digital Elevation Model, IFSAR, Itasca County, Minnesota, Itasca County, Minnesota, All tags... LRS, Land Remote Sensing, Light Detection and Ranging, Mesabi Iron Range, Mesabi Iron Range, Minnesota, NED, National Elevation Dataset, SRTM, Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, St. Louis County, Minnesota, St. Louis County, Minnesota, U.S., U.S. Geological Survey, US, USA, USGS, United States, Vertical Land Change, elevation, geoscientificInformation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, lidar, location, mining, society, Fewer tags