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2018 AK DGGS Lidar: Sitka, Alaska
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            title:  2018 AK DGGS Lidar: Sitka, Alaska
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                date:  2018
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                  Anchor:  InPort Catalog ID 67930
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                        linkage: https://coast.noaa.gov/dataviewer/#/lidar/search/where:ID=9612/details/9612
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                        name:  Custom DEM Download
                        description:  Link to custom download, from the Data Access Viewer (DAV), the raster Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data that were created from this lidar data set.
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                        linkage: https://dggs.alaska.gov/webpubs/dggs/rdf/text/rdf2020_013.pdf
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                        linkage: https://coast.noaa.gov/lidar/viewer/v/noaapotree.html?m=9611&g=geoid12b
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                        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:  The State of Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) produced airborne lidar-derived elevation data for Sitka, Alaska. Airborne and ground surveys occurred between the 27th and 30th of April, 2018. These data were produced to assess bare earth slope conditions as part of an overarching, multi-hazard risk analysis for the study area, coordinated through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) program. The project was initiated in response to a tragic debris flow incident that took three Alaskans' lives in 2015. This data collection is released as a Raw Data File with an open end-user license. All files can be downloaded free of charge from the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys website (http://doi.org/10.14509/30531). The NOAA Office for Coastal Management (OCM) downloaded this data set from this AK DGGS site: https://elevation.alaska.gov/ These files were processed to make the data available for custom and bulk download from the NOAA Digital Coast Data Access Viewer (DAV) . The total number of files downloaded and processed was 263. During processing, OCM noted that there are points that fall on water bodies and buildings that are classified as ground. In addition to these lidar point data, the bare earth Digital Elevation Models (DEM) created from the lidar point data are also available. These data are available for custom download at the link provided in the URL section of this metadata record. This data set is an LAZ (compressed LAS) format file containing LIDAR point cloud data.
        purpose:  These data were produced to assess bare earth slope conditions as part of an overarching, multi-hazard risk analysis for the study area, coordinated through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) program. The project was initiated in response to a tragic debris flow incident that took three Alaskans' lives in 2015. This data release is one of a series of DGGS publications to present elevation data.
        credit:  Funding was provided by the State of Alaska and by National Park Service award #P17AC00903 and award #P15AC01879., Daanen, R.P. Wolken, G.J. Herbst, A.M. The custom download may be cited as National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Digital Coast Data Access Viewer. Charleston, SC: NOAA Office for Coastal Management. Accessed Jul 01, 2023 at https://coast.noaa.gov/dataviewer.
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            keyword:  EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > TOPOGRAPHY > TERRAIN ELEVATION
            keyword:  EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > COASTAL PROCESSES > COASTAL ELEVATION
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            keyword:  Airplane > Airplane
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            keyword:  Sitka
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            otherConstraints:  Cite As: OCM Partners, [Date of Access]: 2018 AK DGGS Lidar: Sitka, Alaska [Data Date Range], https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/67930.
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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 | 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. | Distribution Liability: The State of Alaska makes no expressed or implied warranties (including warranties for merchantability and fitness) with respect to the character, functions, or capabilities of the electronic data or products or their appropriateness for any user's purposes. In no event will the State of Alaska be liable for any incidental, indirect, special, consequential, or other damages suffered by the user or any other person or entity whether from the use of the electronic services or products or any failure thereof or otherwise. In no event will the State of Alaska's liability to the Requestor or anyone else exceed the fee paid for the electronic service or product. 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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                title:  2018 AK DGGS Lidar DEM: Sitka, Alaska
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                westBoundLongitude:  -135.430199
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                    description:   | Currentness: Ground Condition
                    beginPosition:  2018-04-27
                    endPosition:  2018-04-30
        supplementalInformation:  >canopy height model: The CHM displays vegetation heights as the difference between DSM and DTM heights. The CHM is a single-band, 32-bit float GeoTIFF file with a ground sample distance of 0.5 meters. No Data value is set to -3.40282306074e+038. Note: there are some negative values in the CHM, present in low confidence areas of the DSM and DTM. >classified point cloud data: Classified point cloud data is provided in this collection in compressed .laz format. An average point spacing of 0.15 meters was calculated from all returns and all non-noise classes. >digital surface model: The DSM represents human-observable surface elevations, which include vegetation, buildings, etc. The DSM is a single band, 32-bit GeoTIFF file with a ground sample distance of 0.5 meters. No Data value is set to -3.40282306074e+038. >digital terrain model: The DTM represents elevations of the ground surface by penetrating or flattening any vegetation, bridges, buildings, etc. The DTM is a single-band, 32-bit float GeoTIFF file with a ground sample distance of 0.5 meters. No Data value is set to -3.40282306074e+038.
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                linkage: https://coast.noaa.gov/dataviewer/#/lidar/search/where:ID=9611/details/9611
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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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                description:  Bulk download of data files in LAZ format, geographic coordinates, orthometric heights. Note that the vertical datum (hence elevations) of the files here are different than described in this document. They will be in an orthometric datum.
                function:  (CI_OnLineFunctionCode) download
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            evaluationMethodDescription:  Horizontal accuracy was not measured for this collection.
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        report:  (DQ_AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy)
            nameOfMeasure:  Vertical Positional Accuracy
            evaluationMethodDescription:  One hundred ground control points were used to determine a -0.015 m average offset from the point cloud, which was corrected with a uniform z-transformation of the lidar data. Point cloud accuracy was measured using 95 checkpoints to determine a root-mean-square error of 0.063 m for the project. The accompanying report provides a table of ground control measurements and summary statistics.
            result: (missing)
        report:  (DQ_CompletenessCommission)
            nameOfMeasure:  Completeness Report
            evaluationMethodDescription:  This data release is complete. Weather was partially cloudy throughout the survey, at times obscuring higher altitude topography in the study area. These conditions limited data coverage to areas below 980 meters elevation.
            result: (missing)
        report:  (DQ_ConceptualConsistency)
            nameOfMeasure:  Conceptual Consistency
            evaluationMethodDescription:  Relative accuracy for this dataset has been evaluated as the interswath consistency, measured by comparing tie line points within swath overlap areas. The interswath root-mean-square error was calculated to be 0.008 m.
            result: (missing)
        lineage:  (LI_Lineage)
            statement:  The data were collected for the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) and made available on the AK DGGS Elevation Portal (https://elevation.alaska.gov/). The NOAA Office for Coastal Management (OCM) downloaded the data from this site to make the data available for custom downloads from the NOAA Digital Coast Data Access Viewer and for bulk downloads from the AWS S3 bucket.
            processStep:  (LI_ProcessStep)
                description:  Airborne survey - The lidar survey was conducted with a Riegl VUX1-LR lidar scanner with an integrated GNSS and Northrop Grumman IMU system. The integration was designed by Phoenix LiDAR systems. This survey was flown with a pulse rate between 200,000-400,000 pulses/second and at a scan rate between 80 and 150 revolutions/second. This survey was flown with an average elevation of 400 m above ground level and a ground speed of approximately 40 m/s with a fixed-wing Cessna 185 aircraft. The scan angle was set from 55 to 305 degrees, centered normal to the aircraft's bottom. The accompanying report provides additional detail regarding flight conditions.
                dateTime:
                  DateTime:  2018-04-30T00:00:00
            processStep:  (LI_ProcessStep)
                description:  Ground survey - Trimble R8 and R9 RTK GPS systems were used to collect 195 survey points, 100 of which were used as control points and 95 of which were used as checkpoints. Points were gathered by vehicle along the road system and by boat along the coastline. Points were adjusted for accuracy according to OPUS corrections in Trimble Business Center.
                dateTime:
                  DateTime:  2018-04-30T00:00:00
            processStep:  (LI_ProcessStep)
                description:  Lidar dataset processing - SDCImport software was used to apply range thresholding, reflectance thresholding, and missed-time-around (MTA) disambiguation for preliminary point cloud noise filtering. In-flight IMU and GNSS data were coupled using Inertial Explorer software to produce the trajectory data. Spatial Explorer software was used to couple the trajectory data with the point cloud. The point cloud data were calibrated using tielines for roll, pitch, and yaw of the aircraft during the survey. This process was first run using all points, then on a per-flightline basis for additional accuracy. Interswath fluctuations in ground points were identified using overlapping tielines to further calibrate the data. The point cloud was classified in accordance with American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) guidelines using project-tailored macros. Misclassified points were manually reclassified in post-processing QA/QC. The point cloud was converted from ellipsoidal to orthometric heights using geoid 12B, then uniformly adjusted to maintain a mean offset of 0 with collected ground control. Calibration, classification, and height adjustments were all executed in TerraSolid. Derived products were processed in ArcMap. DTM and DSM were produced using point triangulation with nearest-neighbor interpolation. The DTM was derived from all returns for ground classified points, while the DSM used first returns for all non-noise classes. The CHM was created by subtracting DTM height values from DSM height values. A lidar intensity image was created from first returns of all classes using mean binning.
                dateTime:
                  DateTime:  2019-01-01T00:00:00
            processStep:  (LI_ProcessStep)
                description:  The NOAA Office for Coastal Management (OCM) downloaded 263 laz files from the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Elevation Portal (https://elevation.alaska.gov/). The files contained classified elevation and intensity measurements for the 2018 Sitka Alaska project. The data were in UTM Zone 8 NAD83 (2011), meters coordinates and NAVD88 (GEOID12B) elevations in meters. During processing, OCM noted that there are points that fall on water bodies and buildings that are classified as ground. The data had the following classifications: 1 - Unclassified, 2 - Ground, 3- Low Vegetation, 4 - Medium Vegetation, 5 - High Vegetation, 6 - Building, 7 - Noise. OCM processed all points to the Digital Coast Data Access Viewer (DAV). OCM performed the following processing on the data for Digital Coast storage and provisioning purposes: 1. Internal OCM scripts were run to check the number of points by classification and by flight ID and the gps and intensity ranges. 2. Internal OCM scripts were run on the laz files to convert from UTM Zone 8 NAD83 (2011), meters coordinates to geographic coordinates, to convert from NAVD88 elevations to ellipsoid elevations using the GEOID12B model, to assign the geokeys, to sort the data by gps time, zip the data to database, and to create Cloud Optimized Point Cloud (COPC) version laz files that are available from the AWS S3 bucket.
                dateTime:
                  DateTime:  2022-10-19T00:00:00
                processor:  (CI_ResponsibleParty)
                    organisationName:  Office for Coastal Management
                    role:  (CI_RoleCode) processor
            source:  (LI_Source)
                sourceCitation:  (CI_Citation)
                    title:  Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys (AK DGGS)
                    date: (missing)
                    citedResponsibleParty:  (CI_ResponsibleParty)
                        organisationName:  AK DGGS
                        contactInfo:  (CI_Contact)
                            onlineResource:  (CI_OnlineResource)
                                linkage: https://elevation.alaska.gov/
                                protocol:  WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
                                name:  AK DGGS Elevation Portal
                                description:  Source Citation URL
                                function:  (CI_OnLineFunctionCode) information
                        role:  (CI_RoleCode) originator
            processStep:  (LI_ProcessStep)
                description:   The vertical values in this data set have been converted to reference North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88) (GEOID12B) meters, using the GEOID12B grids provided by the National Geodetic Survey. Any datum and projection transformations were then done with the Office for Coastal Management 'datum_shift' program. Compression to an LAZ file was done with the LAStools 'laszip' program and can be unzipped with the same free program (laszip.org) Processing notes:
                dateTime:
                  DateTime:  2023-07-01T05:29:19
                processor:  (CI_ResponsibleParty)
                    individualName:  NOAA Office for Coastal Management
                    contactInfo:  (CI_Contact)
                        address:  (CI_Address)
                            electronicMailAddress:  coastal.info@noaa.gov
                    role:  (CI_RoleCode) processor