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            title:  2012-2013 Puget Sound LiDAR Consortium (PSLC) Topographic LiDAR: Hoh River Watershed, Washington (Deliveries 1 and 2)
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        abstract:  Watershed Sciences, Inc. (WSI) collected Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data on the Hoh River watershed survey area for the Puget Sound LiDAR Consortium and the Hoh Tribe Department of Natural Resources. This data set covers approximately 270 square miles. Due to spring snow on the ground WSI was unable to acquire data for the complete survey during the initial flights in April and returned to finish the collection at a later date. Delivery 1 of the survey area was collected on April 14th, 15th, 17th, 19th, 20th and 21st. Delivery 2 was collected between April 14th, 2012 and July 24th, 2013. Each delivery was processed by NOAA OCM separately using identical methods. See processing steps below for additional information. The LiDAR survey utilized both a Leica ALS60 and a Leica ALS50-II sensor in a Cessna Caravan 208B.All areas were surveyed with an opposing flight line side-lap of =60% (=100% overlap) to reduce laser shadowing and increase surface laser painting. The Leica laser systems allow up to four range measurements (returns) per pulse, and all discernible laser returns were processed for the output dataset. This Lidar survey for Deliveries 1 and 2 achieved a point density of 9.54 points per square meter. This data set is an LAZ (compressed LAS) format file containing LIDAR point cloud data.
        purpose:  The LAS files can be used to create DEMs and also to extract topographic data in software that does not support raster data. Other surface features can also be extracted with custom applications. LiDAR data has a wide range of uses such as earthquake hazard studies, hydrologic modeling, forestry, coastal engineering, roadway and pipeline engineering, flood plain mapping, wetland studies, geologic studies and a variety of analytical and cartographic projects.
        credit:  Please credit the Puget Sound LiDAR Consortium (PSLC) and the Hoh Tribe Department of Natural Resources for these data. The PSLC is supported by the Puget Sound Regional Council, the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA), the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and numerous partners in local, state, and tribal government. 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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            otherConstraints:  Cite As: OCM Partners, [Date of Access]: 2012-2013 Puget Sound LiDAR Consortium (PSLC) Topographic LiDAR: Hoh River Watershed, Washington (Deliveries 1 and 2) [Data Date Range], https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/50166.
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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. These data depict the heights at the time of the survey and are only accurate for that time. | Distribution Liability: Any conclusions drawn from the analysis of this information are not the responsibility of Watershed Sciences Inc., PSLC, The Hoh Tribe, NOAA, the Office for Coastal Management or its partners.
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            nameOfMeasure:  Accuracy
            evaluationMethodDescription:  Elevations are recorded in floating-point meters and the vertical datum is ellipsoidal (GEOID03). There are no other attribute tables.
            result: (missing)
        report:  (DQ_AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy)
            nameOfMeasure:  Horizontal Positional Accuracy
            evaluationMethodDescription:  Not applicable for pure elevation data: every XY error has an associated Z error.
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            nameOfMeasure:  Vertical Positional Accuracy
            evaluationMethodDescription:  WSI used monumentation and groud check points to support the airborne lidar acquisition process. Please refer to the Project Reports in the Supplemental_Information section above for detailed information. ; Quantitative Value: 0.043 meters, Test that produced the value: RMSE in mixed land covers. Units in meters. Accuracy may be significantly less in steep areas and under heavy forest canopy.
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            evaluationMethodDescription:  Elevation data has been collected for all areas inside project boundaries. The data set was flown with a 60% sidelap between flightlines and a 100 meter buffer to ensure all areas are properly sampled.
            result: (missing)
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            evaluationMethodDescription:  Puget Sound Lidar Consortium evaluates logical consistency of high-resolution lidar elevation data with three tests: examination of file names, file formats, and mean and extreme values within each file; internal consistency of measured Z values in areas where survey swaths overlap; and visual inspection of shaded-relief images calculated from bare-earth models. File names, formats, and values: All file naming convention and file formats are checked for consistency. Visual inspection of bare earth surfaces were examined to find any obvious data errors such as blunders, border artifacts, gaps between data quads, no-data gaps between flight lines, hillscarps, land shifting due to GPS time errors, etc.
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                description:  Delivery 1: 1. Resolved kinematic corrections for aircraft position data using kinematic aircraft GPS and static ground GPS data. Software: Waypoint GPS v.8.10, Trimble Business Center 2.6 2. Developed a smoothed best estimate of trajectory (SBET) file that blends post-processed aircraft position with attitude data. Sensor head position and attitude were calculated throughout the survey. The SBET data were used extensively for laser point processing. Software: IPAS TC v.3.1 3. Calculated laser point position by associating SBET position to each laser point return time, scan angle, intensity, etc. Created raw laser point cloud data for the entire survey in *.las (ASPRS v. 1.2) format. Data were then converted to orthometric elevations (NAVD88) by applying a Geoid03 correction. Software: ALS Post Processing Software v.2.74, Corpscon 6 4. Imported raw laser points into manageable blocks (less than 500 MB) to perform manual relative accuracy calibration and filter for pits/birds. Ground points were then classified for individual flight lines (to be used for relative accuracy testing and calibration). Software: TerraScan v.12.004 5. Using ground classified points per each flight line, the relative accuracy was tested. Automated line-to-line calibrations were then performed for system attitude parameters (pitch, roll, heading), mirror flex (scale) and GPS/IMU drift. Calibrations were performed on ground classified points from paired flight lines. Every flight line was used for relative accuracy calibration. Software: TerraMatch v.12.001 6. Position and attitude data were imported. Resulting data were classified as ground and non-ground points. Statistical absolute accuracy was assessed via direct comparisons of ground classified points to ground RTK survey data. Software: TerraScan v.12.004, TerraModeler v.12.002 7. Bare Earth models were created as a triangulated surface and exported as ArcInfo ASCII grids at a 3-foot pixel resolution. Highest Hit models were created for any class at 3-foot grid spacing and exported as ArcInfo ASCII grids. Software: TerraScan v.12.004, ArcMap v.10.0, TerraModeler v.12.002 8. Intensity images were created as Geo TIFFs and mosaicked to the final delineation. Software: TerraScan v.12.004, ArcMap v.10.0, TerraModeler v.12.002
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            processStep:  (LI_ProcessStep)
                description:  Delivery 2: Acquisition. WSI collected the Hoh Watershed LiDAR data between 04/14/12 and 07/24/13. The survey used a Leica ALS60 laser system mounted in a Cessna Caravan 208B and a ALS50 laser system mounted in a Partenavia. Data was collected using a single pulse flight plan. Near nadir scan angles were used to increase penetration of vegetation to ground surfaces. Ground level GPS and aircraft IMU were collected during the flight. Leica ALS 60 Instrument Parameters (4/14/12, 4/15/12, 4/17/12, 4/19/12, 4/20/12, 4/21/12); Beam diameter: 21 cm, Pulse rate: 196-107.8 kHz, Maximum returns: 4, Speed: 105 knots, Overlap: 60 %, Laser output power: 17% Field of view (FOV): 28 degrees, Beam wavelength: 1064 nm, Frequency of GPS sampling: 2 Hz, Frequency of IMU sampling: 200 Hz, Swath width: 449 m AGL: 900 m Average pulse density: 8 Leica ALS 50 Phase II Instrument Parameters (4/15/12, 4/21/12); Beam diameter: 21 cm, Pulse rate: 96-107.8 kHz, Maximum returns: 4, Speed: 105 knots, Overlap: 60 %, Laser output power: 26% Field of view (FOV): 28 degrees, Beam wavelength: 1064 nm, Frequency of GPS sampling: 2 Hz, Frequency of IMU sampling: 200 Hz, Swath width: 449 m AGL: 900 m Average pulse density: 8 Leica ALS 50 Phase II Instrument Parameters (10/6/12, 10/7/12, 10/10/12); Beam diameter: 21 cm, Pulse rate: 93-107.8 kHz, Maximum returns: 4, Speed: 105 knots, Overlap: 65 %, Laser output power: 26% Field of view (FOV): 28 degrees, Beam wavelength: 1064 nm, Frequency of GPS sampling: 2 Hz, Frequency of IMU sampling: 200 Hz, Swath width: 448 m AGL: 900 m Average pulse density: 8 Leica ALS60 Instrument Parameters (3/31/13, 4/1/13): Beam diameter: 21 cm, Pulse rate: 93 - 107.8 kHz, Maximum returns: 4, Speed: 105 knots, Overlap: 65 %, Laser power: 17 %, Field of view (FOV): 28 degrees, Beam wavelength: 1064 nm, Frequency of GPS sampling: 2 Hz, Frequency of IMU sampling: 200 Hz, Swath width: 449 m, AGL: 900 m, Average pulse density: 8 Leica ALS60 Instrument Parameters (6/29/13, 6/30/13): Beam diameter: 21 cm, Pulse rate: 93 - 107.8 kHz, Maximum returns: 4, Speed: 105 knots, Overlap: 65 %, Laser power: 26 %, Field of view (FOV): 28 degrees, Beam wavelength: 1064 nm, Frequency of GPS sampling: 2 Hz, Frequency of IMU sampling: 200 Hz, Swath width: 449 m, AGL: 900 m, Average pulse density: 8 Leica ALS60 Instrument Parameters (7/24/13): Beam diameter: 23 cm, Pulse rate: 85-99.2 kHz, Maximum returns: 4, Speed: 105 knots, Overlap: 60 %, Laser power: 28.9 %, Field of view (FOV): 30 degrees, Beam wavelength: 1064 nm, Frequency of GPS sampling: 2 Hz, Frequency of IMU sampling: 200 Hz, Swath width: 536 m, AGL: 1000 m, Average pulse density: 8
                dateTime:
                  DateTime:  2013-07-24T00:00:00
            processStep:  (LI_ProcessStep)
                description:  Delivery 2: 1. Flight lines and data were reviewed to ensure complete coverage of the study area and positional accuracy of the laser points. 2. Laser point return coordinates were computed using ALS Post Processor and IPAS TC software based on independent data from the LiDAR system, IMU, and aircraft. 3. The raw LiDAR file was assembled into flight lines per return with each point having an associated x, y, and z coordinate. 4. Visual inspection of swath to swath laser point consistencies within the study area were used to perform manual refinements of system alignment. 5. Custom algorithms were designed to evaluate points between adjacent flight lines. Automated system alignment was computed based upon randomly selected swath to swath accuracy measurements that consider elevation, slope, and intensities. Specifically, refinement in the combination of system pitch, roll and yaw offset parameters optimize internal consistency. 6. Noise (e.g., pits and birds) was filtered using ALS postprocessing software, based on known elevation ranges and included the removal of any cycle slips. 7. Using TerraScan and Microstation, ground classifications utilized custom settings appropriate to the study area. 8. The corrected and filtered return points were compared to the RTK ground survey points collected to verify the vertical accuracy. 9. The highest hit algorithm was used to create this highest hit DSM.
                dateTime:
                  DateTime:  2013-08-28T00:00:00
            processStep:  (LI_ProcessStep)
                description:  The NOAA Office for Coastal Management (OCM) downloaded topographic files in .LAZ format from PSLC's website in two separate deliveries. The files contained lidar elevation and intensity measurements. The data were received in Washington State Plane South Zone 4602, NAD83 coordinates and were vertically referenced to NAVD88 using the Geoid03 model. The vertical units of the data were feet. OCM performed the following processing for data storage and Digital Coast provisioning purposes: Delivery 1: 1. The topographic laz files were converted from orthometric (NAVD88) heights to ellipsoidal heights using Geoid03. 2. The topographic laz files were converted from a Projected Coordinate System (WA SP South) to a Geographic Coordinate system (NAD83). 3. The topographic laz files' vertical units were converted from feet to meters. 4. The topographic laz files' horizontal units were converted from feet to decimal degrees. Delivery 2: 1. The topographic laz file 'q47124f1103' was found to contain Class 15 points. These points were changed to Class 2 (Ground). 2. The topographic laz files were converted from orthometric (NAVD88) heights to ellipsoidal heights using Geoid03. 3. The topographic laz files were converted from a Projected Coordinate System (WA SP South) to a Geographic Coordinate system (NAD83). 4. The topographic laz files' vertical units were converted from feet to meters. 5. The topographic laz files' horizontal units were converted from feet to decimal degrees.
                dateTime:
                  DateTime:  2015-01-01T00:00:00
            processStep:  (LI_ProcessStep)
                description:   The vertical values in this data set have been converted to reference North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88) (GEOID18) meters, using the GEOID18 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:  2023-07-01T06:07:43
                processor:  (CI_ResponsibleParty)
                    individualName:  NOAA Office for Coastal Management
                    contactInfo:  (CI_Contact)
                        address:  (CI_Address)
                            electronicMailAddress:  coastal.info@noaa.gov
                    role:  (CI_RoleCode) processor