2010 USGS Coastal Lidar: Chandeuler Islands (LA) Point Cloud files with Orthometric Vertical Datum North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88) using GEOID18

Below are links to the files that make up the 2010 USGS Coastal Lidar: Chandeuler Islands (LA) dataset in an orthometric vertical datum North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88) using GEOID18. This HTML file is here to emulate the access you would have gotten through an ftp site. The files containing geospatial indices, metadata, etc., are listed first, followed by the files. To download in bulk, it is suggested you use a program such as wget (example below). 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 or LAZ fmt will take you here).

The files are in LAZ format, a lossless compressed version of the ASPRS LAS format. The compression and decompression is done with the free and open source 'laszip' program available at https://laszip.org. This is not the same as the more general zip format. Many geospatial programs will read LAZ files natively and decompression is often not necessary. There is a list of software with native support on the laszip site.

There are many download managers you can use to get all the data. An example is the uGet program using the list of URLs in file urllist1066.txt. Several posts on the GeoZone blog provide help with downloading, including:

The total size to download all the files is 20M. There are 27 LAZ files and the summary class table is:
Class NumberClass NamePoints
2Ground4015146

Georeferencing Note

You may find the georeferencing on the files refers to generic NAD83 (EPSG code 4269). All files, with the exception of the few in WGS84, are in a more recent realization of NAD83 such as NAD83(CORS96), NAD83(HARN), NAD83(NSRS2007), or NAD83(2011).

Cloud Access

This data is now in an AWS S3 bucket at s3://noaa-nos-coastal-lidar-pds/laz/geoid18/1066.

Meta Info

Tile Index: tileindex.zip (Shapefile)
                2010_USGS_CHAN_LA_index.gpkg (GeoPackage)
Metadata: 2010_USGS_CHAN_LA_metadata.xml
Metadata: 2010_USGS_CHAN_LA_metadata.html
XYZ range table: 2010_USGS_CHAN_LA_minmax.csv
README: 0README.txt (contains similar information to above)
URL List: urllist1066.txt is a list of all the URLs for batch downloading.

Supplemental Info

supplemental/2010_USGS_NASA_EAARL_Lidar_Chandeleur_Islands_Louisiana.kmz
supplemental/index.html

Point Clouds

20100303_be_e324_n3316_16_ld_p32.laz
20100303_be_e320_n3298_16_ld_p32.laz
20100303_be_e324_n3314_16_ld_p32.laz
20100303_be_e318_n3308_16_ld_p32.laz
20100303_be_e318_n3306_16_ld_p32.laz
20100303_be_e324_n3312_16_ld_p32.laz
20100303_be_e318_n3304_16_ld_p32.laz
20100303_be_e318_n3300_16_ld_p32.laz
20100303_be_e324_n3310_16_ld_p32.laz
20100303_be_e318_n3298_16_ld_p32.laz
20100303_be_e322_n3322_16_ld_p32.laz
20100303_be_e322_n3320_16_ld_p32.laz
20100303_be_e322_n3318_16_ld_p32.laz
20100303_be_e318_n3296_16_ld_p32.laz
20100303_be_e322_n3316_16_ld_p32.laz
20100303_be_e322_n3314_16_ld_p32.laz
20100303_be_e322_n3312_16_ld_p32.laz
20100303_be_e322_n3310_16_ld_p32.laz
20100303_be_e322_n3308_16_ld_p32.laz
20100303_be_e322_n3306_16_ld_p32.laz
20100303_be_e322_n3304_16_ld_p32.laz
20100303_be_e322_n3302_16_ld_p32.laz
20100303_be_e320_n3322_16_ld_p32.laz
20100303_be_e320_n3306_16_ld_p32.laz
20100303_be_e320_n3304_16_ld_p32.laz
20100303_be_e320_n3302_16_ld_p32.laz
20100303_be_e320_n3300_16_ld_p32.laz

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