2011 USGS Lidar: Northeast (NY to ME) Point Cloud files with Vertical Datum North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88) using GEOID18

Below are links to the files that make up the 2011 USGS Lidar: Northeast (NY to ME) dataset.

Vertical datumNorth American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88) using GEOID18 in meters
Horizontal projection/datumNAD83(NSRS2007) / UTM zone 18N

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_ne2011_usgs_lftne_m2524.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/geoid18/2524/index.html/
This will give you the directory structure starting with geoid18. 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 235G. There are 12631 LAZ files and the summary class table is:

Class NumberClass NamePoints
1Unclassified19631407057
2Ground11170634197
7Low Point (noise)41121614
9Water306164480
10Ignored Ground (near breakline)11156912
11High Noise29089669
14Bare Water1254281564
17Overlap default6796509433
18Overlap ground5539800322
25Overlap water26496313
30Overlap bare water28769530

This dataset has 3097281671 points in additional unexpected classes that may be misclassified.

Cloud Access

This data is in an AWS S3 bucket at s3://noaa-nos-coastal-lidar-pds/laz/geoid18/2524.

Meta Information

Tile Index: tileindex_ne2011_usgs_lftne_m2524.zip (Shapefile)
Tile Index: tileindex_ne2011_usgs_lftne_m2524.gpkg (Geopackage)
Metadata: metadata_ne2011_usgs_lftne.xml
Metadata: metadata_ne2011_usgs_lftneforHumans.html
XYZ range table: minmax_ne2011_usgs_lftne_m2524.csv
URL List: urllist_ne2011_usgs_lftne_m2524.txt

Supplemental Info

Files

ne2011_usgs_lftne_NPSMap.pdf
extent_m2524.kmz
ne2011_usgs_lftne_VAMap.pdf
ne2011_usgs_lftne_footprint.kmz

Subdirectories

Supplemental

Files

ConnecticutZ18_Hydro_Breaklines.dbf
ConnecticutZ18_Hydro_Breaklines.prj
ConnecticutZ18_Hydro_Breaklines.shp
ConnecticutZ18_Hydro_Breaklines.shx
ConnecticutZ19_Hydro_Breaklines.dbf
ConnecticutZ19_Hydro_Breaklines.prj
ConnecticutZ19_Hydro_Breaklines.shp
ConnecticutZ19_Hydro_Breaklines.shx
Maine_Hydro_Breaklines.dbf
Maine_Hydro_Breaklines.prj
Maine_Hydro_Breaklines.shp
Maine_Hydro_Breaklines.shx
Massachusetts_Hydro_Breaklines.dbf
Massachusetts_Hydro_Breaklines.prj
Massachusetts_Hydro_Breaklines.shp
Massachusetts_Hydro_Breaklines.shx
NewHampshire_Hydro_Breaklines.dbf
NE_LiDAR_G10PD02143_G10PD01027_Hydro_Flattened_Breaklines_LOT4.dbf
NE_LiDAR_G10PD02143_G10PD01027_Hydro_Flattened_Breaklines_LOT4.prj
NE_LiDAR_G10PD02143_G10PD01027_Hydro_Flattened_Breaklines_LOT4.shp
NE_LiDAR_G10PD02143_G10PD01027_Hydro_Flattened_Breaklines_LOT4.shx
NewHampshire_Hydro_Breaklines.prj
NewHampshire_Hydro_Breaklines.shp
NewHampshire_Hydro_Breaklines.shx
NewYork_Hydro_Breaklines.dbf
NewYork_Hydro_Breaklines.prj
NewYork_Hydro_Breaklines.shp
NewYork_Hydro_Breaklines.shx

Spatial Temporal Asset Catalog (STAC)

collection.json (See collection in STAC Browser)
noaa_copc_item_collection_m2524.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

Point Cloud Directories

Ct18_laz
Ct19_laz
Ma_laz
Me_laz
Nh_laz
Ny_laz
Ri_laz

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