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            title:  2009 Puget Sound Lidar Consortium (PSLC) Topographic LiDAR: Nooksack River
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        abstract:  Watershed Sciences, Inc. (WS) collected Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data of the Nooksack River in Washington on February 20th - 22nd, 2009. The total area of delivered LiDAR is 35,662 acres. The requested area was expanded to include a 100 m buffer to ensure complete coverage and adequate point densities around survey area boundaries. This data set is an LAZ (compressed LAS) format file containing LIDAR point cloud data.
        purpose:  Provide high resolution terrain elevation and land cover elevation data.
        credit:  Please credit the Puget Sound LiDAR Consortium (PSLC) 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]: 2009 Puget Sound Lidar Consortium (PSLC) Topographic LiDAR: Nooksack River [Data Date Range], https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/50157.
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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be aware that temporal changes may have occurred since this data set was collected and some parts of this data may no longer represent actual surface conditions.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, PSLC, NOAA, the Office for Coastal Management or its partners.
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        supplementalInformation:  A footprint of this data set may be viewed in Google Earth at: https://noaa-nos-coastal-lidar-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/laz/geoid18/2608/supplemental/wa2009_pslc_nooksack.KMZ Reports explaining collection and quality assurance is available at: https://noaa-nos-coastal-lidar-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/laz/geoid18/2608/supplemental/wa2009_pslc_nooksack.pdf
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            nameOfMeasure:  Accuracy
            evaluationMethodDescription:  Elevations are recorded in floating-point meters and the vertical datum is ellipsoidal (GEOID03).
            result: (missing)
        report:  (DQ_AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy)
            nameOfMeasure:  Horizontal Positional Accuracy
            evaluationMethodDescription:  Horizontal positional accuracy for LiDAR is dependent upon the quality of the GPS/INS solution, sensor calibration and ground conditions at the time of data capture. The standard system results for horizontal accuracy are less than 1 meter. Not reported, assumed as 1.0 m. ; Quantitative Value: 1.0 meters, Test that produced the value: See LiDAR data report.
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            nameOfMeasure:  Vertical Positional Accuracy
            evaluationMethodDescription:  Review the report cited as supplemental information above for details on accuracy assessment.; Quantitative Value: 0.02 meters, Test that produced the value: Summary statistics for point resolution and accuracy (relative and absolute) of the LiDAR data collected in the Douglas County survey area are presented below in terms of central tendency, variation around the mean, and the spatial distribution of the data (for point resolution by bin). Calculated to 2.3 cm, point density of 7.37 points/m2.
            result: (missing)
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            evaluationMethodDescription:  LiDAR data has been collected and processed for all areas within the project study area.
            result: (missing)
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            nameOfMeasure:  Conceptual Consistency
            evaluationMethodDescription:  The vertical accuracy of the LiDAR data is described as the mean and standard deviation (sigma ~ s) of divergence of LiDAR point coordinates from RTK ground survey point coordinates. To provide a sense of the model predictive power of the dataset, the root mean square error (RMSE) for vertical accuracy is also provided. These statistics assume the error distributions for x, y, and z are normally distributed, thus we also consider the skew and kurtosis of distributions when evaluating error statistics. Statements of statistical accuracy apply to fixed terrestrial surfaces only and may not be applied to areas of dense vegetation or steep terrain. To calibrate laser accuracy for the LiDAR dataset, 1018 RTK points were collected on fixed, hard-packed road surfaces within the survey area.
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                description:  Acquisition. The lidar survey uses a Leica ALS50 Phase II laser system. For the Wenatchee USGS survey area, the sensor scan angle +/- 14 degrees from nadir with a pulse rate designed to yield an average native density (number of pulses emitted by the laser system) of more than 8 points per square meter over terrestrial surfaces. All survey areas were surveyed with an opposing flight line side-lap of more than 50% (less than 100% overlap) to reduce laser shadowing and increase surface laser painting. The Leica ALS50 Phase II system allows up to four range measurements (returns) per pulse, and all discernible laser returns were processed for the output dataset. It is not uncommon for some types of surfaces (e.g. dense vegetation or water) to return fewer pulses than the laser originally emitted. These discrepancies between 'native' and 'delivered' density will vary depending on terrain, land cover and the prevalence of water bodies. To accurately solve for laser points position (geographic coordinates x, y, z) the positional coordinates of the airborne sensor and the attitude of the aircraft were recorded continuously throughout the lidar data collection mission. Aircraft position was measured twice per second (2 Hz) by an onboard differential GPS unit. Aircraft attitude was measured 200 times per second (200 Hz) as pitch, roll, yaw (heading) from an onboard inertial measurement unit(IMU). To allow for post-processing correction and calibration, aircraft/sensor position and attitude data are indexed by GPS time.
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                  DateTime:  2009-02-22T00:00:00
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                description:  Resolved kinematic corrections for aircraft position data using kinematic aircraft GPS and static ground GPS data. Software - Waypoint GPS v.8.10, Trimble Geomatics Office v.1.62 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 v.1.4 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 v1.1) format. Software: ALS Post Processing Software v.2.69 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.9.001 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.9.001 Position and attitude data were imported. Resulting data were classified as ground and nonground points. Statistical absolute accuracy was assessed via direct comparisons of ground classified points to ground RTK survey data. Data were then converted to orthometric elevations (NAVD88) by applying a Geoid03 correction. Ground models were created as a triangulated surface and exported as ArcInfo ASCII grids at a 3-foot pixel resolution. Software - TerraScan v.9.001, ArcMap v.9.3, TerraModeler v.9.001
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                  DateTime:  2009-04-24T00:00:00
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                description:  The NOAA Office for Coastal Management (OCM) downloaded topographic files in LAZ format from PSLC's website. The files contained lidar easting, northing, elevation, intensity, return number, class, scan angle and GPS time measurements; the data was received in state plane Washington North (in feet) and vertical coordinates were referenced to NAVD88 in feet using the Geoid03 model. OCM performed the following processing for data storage and Digital Coast provisioning purposes: 1. The All-Return LAZ files were checked for bad elevations 2. The laz files were converted from a Projected Coordinate System (SP 4601) to a Geographic Coordinate system (NAD83) 3. The laz files were then converted to ellipsoidal vertical units in meters using the geoid03 conversion.
                dateTime:
                  DateTime:  2013-12-02T00:00:00
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                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:
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                  DateTime:  2023-07-01T06:29:58
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