2021 NOAA NGS Topobathy Lidar: Revillagigedo Channel, Southeast Alaska Point Cloud files with Vertical Datum North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88) using GEOID12B

Below are links to the files that make up the 2021 NOAA NGS Topobathy Lidar: Revillagigedo Channel, Southeast Alaska dataset.

Vertical datumNorth American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88) using GEOID12B in meters
Horizontal projection/datumNAD83(2011) / UTM zone 9N

Informational files are listed first (such as geospatial indices, metadata, and so on), followed by the files. To download in bulk, it is suggested you use a download manager such as wget, uget, or filezilla for example. The geospatial index file in shapefile format also has a URL attribute that some GIS programs can use to download files. You can also subset the data, make derived products, and change projection, datum, etc., using the Digital Coast Data Access Viewer (add to cart, the link to bulk download will take you here).

The files are in LAZ format, a lossless compressed version of the ASPRS LAS format. The compression and decompression can be done with the free and open source 'laszip' program available at https://rapidlasso.de/laszip/ (source at https://github.com/LASzip/LASzip). This is not the same as the more general zip format. You may also want to try the uGet program using the list of URLs in file urllist_NGS_topobathy_revillagigedo_alaska_m9833.txt. Several posts on the GeoZone blog provide help with downloading, including:

Example to download entire data set using wget (note: sufficiently new and trusted pre-compiled Windows versions can be hard to find):
wget -np -r -nH -L --cut-dirs=2 https://noaa-nos-coastal-lidar-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/laz/geoid12b/9833/index.html/
This will give you the directory structure starting with geoid12b. Modify the --cut-dirs=2 argument to modify the start directory (e.g. --cut-dirs=4 will start at $missionid). Wget is a command-line program and the output will be to the directory you run it in. More options and information can be found at https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html. The other options in the example mean:


If you have problems with wget that look like an authorization or certificate issue, you may need to add the option "--no-check-certificate". Windows users may want to install the Windows Subsystem for Linux to get a current wget.

The total size to download all the files is 417G. There are 10953 LAZ files and the summary class table is:

Class NumberClass NamePoints
1Unclassified39071363453
2Ground2959736792
7Low Point (noise)830465252
18High Noise35748976
20Ignored Ground/Bathymetry850775
22Temporal Exclusion1338043162
40Bathymetric point349113802
41Water surface593184971
42Derived water surface8220130553
43Submerged Object54
45Water column3812489090
46Submerged Vegetation7459945
47Submerged Noise2386246
48Submerged Temporal Exclusion5575275558

Cloud Access

This data is in an AWS S3 bucket at s3://noaa-nos-coastal-lidar-pds/laz/geoid12b/9833.

Meta Information

Tile Index: tileindex_NGS_topobathy_revillagigedo_alaska_m9833.zip (Shapefile)
Tile Index: tileindex_NGS_topobathy_revillagigedo_alaska_m9833.gpkg (Geopackage)
Metadata: metadata_NGS_topobathy_revillagigedo_alaska.xml
Metadata: metadata_NGS_topobathy_revillagigedo_alaskaforHumans.html
XYZ range table: minmax_NGS_topobathy_revillagigedo_alaska_m9833.csv
URL List: urllist_NGS_topobathy_revillagigedo_alaska_m9833.txt

Supplemental Info

Files

~ftp9833.txt
extent_ngs_SE_ak__2021_m9833.kmz

Spatial Temporal Asset Catalog (STAC)

collection.json (See collection in STAC Browser)
noaa_copc_item_collection_m9833.json

Entwine Format

See entwine.io for more information on the Entwine Point Tile format.

EPT JSON file
View Point Data in Potree 3D Viewer

Links to Related Datasets

Title Bulk Download Data Access Viewer ID #
2021 NOAA NGS Topobathy Lidar DEM: Revillagigedo Channel, Southeast Alaskabulk linkDAV9834

Point Cloud Directories

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