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2020 Maryland Lidar DEM: Anne Arundel County, MD
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      DateTime:  2025-03-26T13:36:18
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            title:  2020 Maryland Lidar DEM: Anne Arundel County, MD
            alternateTitle:  md2020_arundel_dem_m10308_metadata
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                date:  2020
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                date:  2021-06-24
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                  Anchor:  InPort Catalog ID 75376
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                        name:  NOAA's Office for Coastal Management (OCM) Data Access Viewer (DAV)
                        description:  The Data Access Viewer (DAV) allows a user to search for and download elevation, imagery, and land cover data for the coastal U.S. and its territories. The data, hosted by the NOAA Office for Coastal Management, can be customized and requested for free download through a checkout interface. An email provides a link to the customized data, while the original data set is available through a link within the viewer.
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        abstract:  Original Product: These are Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data as part of the required deliverables for the lidar project. Class 2 (Ground) lidar points in conjunction with the hydro breaklines were used to create a 1 foot hydro-flattened Raster DEM. Original Dataset Geographic Extent: Anne Arundel county, Maryland, covering approximately 459 square miles. Original Dataset Description: The lidar project called for the Planning, Acquisition, processing and derivative products of lidar data to be collected at a nominal pulse spacing (NPS) of 0.35 meters. Project specifications are based on the U.S. Geological Survey National Geospatial Program Base Lidar Specification, Version 2.1. The data was developed based on a horizontal projection/datum of NAD83 (HARN), State Plane, Feet and vertical datum of NAVD88 (GEOID12B), Feet. Lidar data was delivered as processed Classified LAS 1.4 files, formatted to 619 individual 6000 ft x 4000 ft tiles, as tiled intensity rasters, and as tiled bare-earth DEMs; all tiled to the same 6000 ft x 4000 ft schema. Original Dataset Ground Conditions: Lidar was collected in late 2020, 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, Sanborn Map Company, Inc., utilized a total of 10 ground control points that were used to calibrate the lidar to known ground locations established throughout the project area. An additional 50 independent accuracy check points, 30 in Bare Earth and Urban landcovers (30 NVA points), 20 in Tall Grass and Brushland/Low Trees categories (20 VVA points), were used to assess the vertical accuracy of the data. These check points were not used to calibrate or post process the data. This metadata record supports the data entry in the NOAA Digital Coast Data Access Viewer (DAV). The 2020 Anne Arundel County, Maryland digital elevation model (DEM) was downloaded from the Maryland iMAP site and the data were processed to be made available for bulk and custom download from the DAV.
        purpose:  To acquire detailed surface elevation data for use in conservation planning, design, research, floodplain mapping, dam safety assessments and elevation modeling, etc. Classified LAS files are used to show the manually reviewed bare earth surface. This allows the user to create Intensity Images, Breaklines and Raster DEM. The purpose of these lidar data was to produce high accuracy 3D hydro-flattened Digital Elevation Model (DEM) with a 1 foot cell size. These lidar point cloud data were used to create intensity images, 3D breaklines, and hydro-flattened DEMs as necessary.
        credit:  Sanborn Map Company, Inc., MD iMAP
        status:  (MD_ProgressCode) completed
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            keyword:  EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > TOPOGRAPHY > TERRAIN ELEVATION
            keyword:  EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > TOPOGRAPHY > TERRAIN ELEVATION > DIGITAL ELEVATION/TERRAIN MODEL (DEM)
            keyword:  EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > COASTAL PROCESSES > COASTAL ELEVATION
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                edition:  17.0
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            keyword:  CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
            keyword:  CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > MARYLAND
            keyword:  VERTICAL LOCATION > LAND SURFACE
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            keyword:  LIDAR > Light Detection and Ranging
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                title:  Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Instrument Keywords
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            keyword:  DEMs - partner (no harvest)
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            otherConstraints:  Cite As: OCM Partners, [Date of Access]: 2020 Maryland Lidar DEM: Anne Arundel County, MD [Data Date Range], https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/75376.
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            useLimitation:  NOAA provides no warranty, nor accepts any liability occurring from any incomplete, incorrect, or misleading data, or from any incorrect, incomplete, or misleading use of the data. It is the responsibility of the user to determine whether or not the data is suitable for the intended purpose.
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            otherConstraints:  Access Constraints: None
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            otherConstraints:  Use Constraints: Users should be aware that temporal changes may have occurred since this data set was collected and some parts of this data may no longer represent actual surface conditions. Users should not use this data for critical applications without a full awareness of its limitations.
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            otherConstraints:  Distribution Liability: Any conclusions drawn from the analysis of this information are not the responsibility of NOAA, the Office for Coastal Management or its partners.
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            classification:  (MD_ClassificationCode) unclassified
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                            linkage: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/ocmp/dmp/pdf/75376.pdf
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                            description:  NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort.
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        language:  eng; US
        topicCategory:  (MD_TopicCategoryCode) elevation
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                westBoundLongitude:  -76.8406552171
                eastBoundLongitude:  -76.3931776623
                southBoundLatitude:  38.7117806526
                northBoundLatitude:  39.2381837
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                    description:   | Currentness: Ground Condition
                    beginPosition:  2020-12-08
                    endPosition:  2020-12-11
        supplementalInformation:  Raster File Type = TIFF Bit Depth/Pixel Type = 32-bit float Raster Cell Size = 1 Foot Interpolation or Resampling Technique = Triangulated Irregular Network Required Vertical Accuracy = 19.6 cm NVA
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                organisationName:  NOAA Office for Coastal Management
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                        city:  Charleston
                        administrativeArea:  SC
                        postalCode:  29405-2413
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                linkage: https://coast.noaa.gov/dataviewer/#/lidar/search/where:ID=10308/details/10308
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                name:  Customized Download
                description:  Create custom data files by choosing data area, product type, map projection, file format, datum, etc. A new metadata will be produced to reflect your request using this record as a base. Change to an orthometric vertical datum is one of the many options.
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                linkage: https://noaa-nos-coastal-lidar-pds.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/dem/MD_Anne_Arundel_DEM_2020_10308/index.html
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                description:  Bulk download of data files in GeoTIFF format, Maryland State Plane NAD83(HARN), US feet coordinates and elevations in NAVD88(Geoid12B), meters.
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    dataQualityInfo:  (DQ_DataQuality)
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        report:  (DQ_AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy)
            nameOfMeasure:  Vertical Positional Accuracy
            evaluationMethodDescription:  This data set was produced to meet ASPRS Positional Accuracy Standard for Digital Geospatial Data (2014) for a 10-cm RMSEz Vertical Accuracy Class.
            result: (missing)
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            nameOfMeasure:  Completeness Report
            evaluationMethodDescription:  Datasets contain complete coverage of tiles. No points have been removed or excluded. A visual qualitative assessment was performed to ensure data completeness. There are no void areas or missing data. The raw point cloud is of good quality and data passes Non-Vegetated Vertical Accuracy specifications.
            result: (missing)
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            nameOfMeasure:  Conceptual Consistency
            evaluationMethodDescription:  Data covers the pilot area specified for this project.
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            statement:  Data were collected for the state of Maryland by Sanborn. The data were downloaded by the NOAA Office for Coastal Management (OCM) from the MD iMAP site and processed to make it available for custom download from the NOAA Digital Coast Data Access Viewer (DAV) and for bulk download from S3 AWS.
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                description:  Hydro-flattened Bare-earth DEM Process: Class 2 (Ground) lidar points in conjunction with the hydro breaklines were used to create a 1 foot hydro-flattened Raster DEM. Using automated scripting routines within LP360, a GeoTIFF file was created for each tile. Each surface is reviewed using Global Mapper to check for any surface anomalies or incorrect elevations found within the surface.
                dateTime:
                  DateTime:  2021-06-24T00:00:00
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                description:  The NOAA Office for Coastal Management (OCM) downloaded ESRI ArcInfo Binary Grid Format data files from the MD iMAP site. The data were in MD State Plane (NAD83 HARN), US feet coordinates and NAVD88 (Geoid12b) elevations in meters. The bare earth raster files were at a 1 foot grid spacing. OCM performed the following processing on the data for Digital Coast storage and provisioning purposes: 1. Used gdal_translate to convert the ESRI ArcInfo Binary Grid Format file to a GeoTIFF file 2. Used an internal script to tile the large single GeoTIFF file into many smaller GeoTIFF files 3. Used an internal script to assign the EPSG codes (Horizontal EPSG: 2893 and Vertical EPSG: 5703) 4. Copied the raster files to AWS S3 for Digital Coast storage and provisioning purposes.
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                  DateTime:  2025-03-25T00:00:00
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                                linkage: https://doitdataservices.maryland.gov/s/N9xGBYPKq4QSZNq?path=%2FAnne%20Arundel%20County%2F2020%2FDEM
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