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2008 USGS South New Jersey County Project Lidar: Cumberland County
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            title:  2008 USGS South New Jersey County Project Lidar: Cumberland County
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                date:  2010-08
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        abstract:  The South New Jersey County Lidar Project is to provide LiDAR data for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJ-DEP) for Cape May, Cumberland, and part of Salem Counties in New Jersey. These datasets will be the initial acquisition to support the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJ-DEP). This LiDAR data set was collected in April 2008 for Cumberland County and covers 502 square miles. The data are classified as follows: Class 1 - Unclassified/Extracted Features Class 2 - Bare Earth, Ground Class 9 - Water Class 12 - Overlap This data set is an LAZ (compressed LAS) format file containing LIDAR point cloud data.
        purpose:  The South New Jersey County Lidar Project is to provide LiDAR data for New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJ-DEP). This project acquired and produced high accuracy bare-earth processed LiDAR data in LAS format and 2.0-meter Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) in ArcGrid format for approximately 874 square miles covering the 3 New Jersey counties of Cape May, Cumberland, and part of Salem that is south and west of the Coastal Area Facility Review Act (CAFRA) line.
        credit:  Acknowledgment of the U.S. Geological Survey would be appreciated for products derived from these data. 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 Aug 01, 2023 at https://coast.noaa.gov/dataviewer.
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            otherConstraints:  Cite As: OCM Partners, [Date of Access]: 2008 USGS South New Jersey County Project Lidar: Cumberland County [Data Date Range], https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/50108.
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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. | Distribution Liability: Any conclusions drawn from the analysis of this information are not the responsibility of NOAA, the Office for Coastal Management or its partners.
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                westBoundLongitude:  -75.428403
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                    description:   | Currentness: Ground Condition
                    timePosition:  2008-04-01
        supplementalInformation:  A footprint of this data set may be viewed in Google Earth at: https://noaa-nos-coastal-lidar-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/laz/geoid18/542/supplemental/2008_USGS_South_NJ_Lidar_Cumberland_County.kmz The following were the data acquisition parameters: Technical Acquisition Parameters: Utilizing Leica ALS50 II laser systems which can collect data at laser pulse rates up to 150 KHz, Photo Science flew the project area at 5,000 feet AGL and utilized a 29 degree full-angle field of view. Flights were accomplished nominally at 115 knots (ground speed) with a pulse rate of 73,500Hz (73.5 KHz), collecting four returns per pulse. The scan rate was be set at 42Hz. These settings resulted in a swath of 2,586 feet with maximum along track and cross track spacing of 4.62 feet (1.41 meters). Environmental Acquisition Conditions: Leaf-Off, snow free, non-flood conditions, low tide. Low tide: Acquisition was performed within a window of +/- 3 hours from mean low tide for the project area (flight windows that occur twice a day, that are approximately six hours in length but could be longer depending on the lunar cycle). Low tide is defined as when the height of tide is different from Mean Lower Low water by fifty percent (50%) of the tide range or less as predicted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Oceanic Service (NOS) Center for Operational Oceanographic Product and Services (http://www.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/). All flight lines affected by tide stage were coordinated with predicted tides at existing gauges at Cape May, Ship John Shoal, and Reedy Point. Nominal Pulse density: Average point density is 1.58 points per sq meter Average point spacing is 0.8 meters, or 8 decimeters. Calibration procedures: Photo Science has created a significant boresight facility at the Frankfort, KY airport where the Lidar platforms are stationed when not in service. Boresighting at this facility takes place with our Lidar sensors at numerous times throughout the year. Additionally, a mini-calibration site was established at the Millville Municipal Airport at the project site. Additional calibration flights were conducted over this site to ensure accurate determination of the calibration parameters throughout the times of acquisition. GPS: Acquisition for this project was broken into three sub areas with base stations from the NGS database selected near the center of each acquisition area to serve as control for all lifts. Ground based GPS receivers were occupied at these stations during all aerial collection. The published NGS positions of these base stations and raw GPS observation data were used in the kinematic GPS post-processing of all lifts to provide positioning for the point clouds produced for this project. Maximum and mean differential baseline lengths: Nominal Maximum base line distance = 20 Miles Mean base line distance = 11 Miles Geoid Model Used: Geoid 03 was used for all elevation conversions to orthometric heights. Reference System: Horizontal: New Jersey State Plane Coordinate System, 1983 North American Datum, feet Elevation in North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88), meters
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            title:  LiDAR point data in LAS 1.1; ASPRS classification scheme: Class 1 - Unclassified/Extracted Features; Class 2 - Bare Earth Ground; Class 9 - water; Class 12 - overlap.
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            nameOfMeasure:  Accuracy
            evaluationMethodDescription:  The following aspects of the LiDAR data was verified during the course of the project processing: -Data accuracy and errors -Anomaly checks through full-feature hillshades and 3-D modeling -Post automated classification Bare-earth verification -Final quality control of deliverable products ensuring integrity, graphical quality
            result: (missing)
        report:  (DQ_AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy)
            nameOfMeasure:  Horizontal Positional Accuracy
            evaluationMethodDescription:  Compiled to meet 1 m horizontal accuracy
            result: (missing)
        report:  (DQ_AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy)
            nameOfMeasure:  Vertical Positional Accuracy
            evaluationMethodDescription:  Independent accuracy testing was performed by Dewberry using 60 high accuracy quality control checkpoints distributed around Salem, Cumberland, and Cape May County on near level open bare terrain, urban terrain and near level vegetated terrain. Dewberry uses testing procedures consistent with those specified in the National Standard for Spatial Data Accuracy (NSSDA). Target equivalent to 2 ft contours: 0.363 m. FVA - Fundamental Vertical Accuracy in open terrain (RMSEz x 1.9600): 0.13 m; CVA - Consolidated Vertical Accuracy (95th Percentile) all categories: 0.16 m; SVA - Supplemental Vertical Accuracy (95th Percentile) in mixed vegetation: 0.18 m; SVA - Supplemental Vertical Accuracy (95th Percentile) in Urban: 0.12 m; 31 points are included inside the Cumberland dataset, the consolidated accuracy (95th Percentile all categories) for these points is 0.15 m. ; Quantitative Value: 0.13 meters, Test that produced the value: National Standard for Spatial Data Accuracy. Using NSSDA standards, this LiDAR dataset was tested 0.13 m fundamental vertical accuracy at 95% confidence level in open terrain using RMSEz x1.9600, compared to 0.363 m for 2 ft equivalent contour.
            result: (missing)
        report:  (DQ_CompletenessCommission)
            nameOfMeasure:  Completeness Report
            evaluationMethodDescription:  Data completeness and integrity were verified.
            result: (missing)
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            nameOfMeasure:  Conceptual Consistency
            evaluationMethodDescription:  All LAS formatted LiDAR data are validated to ensure that data on delivery media is in correct physical format and is readable and correctly georeferenced and projected. Note that LiDAR intensity is not calibrated or normalized.
            result: (missing)
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                description:  Leica software was used in the post processing of the airborne GPS and inertial data that is critical to the positioning of the sensor during all flights. This software suite includes Applanix's PosPac and Waypoint's GrafNav solutions. PosPac provides the smoothed best estimate of trajectory (SBET) that is necessary for Leica's post processor to develop the point cloud from the LiDAR missions. The point cloud is the mathematical three dimensional collection of all returns from all laser pulses as determined from the aerial mission. At this point this data is ready for analysis, classification, and filtering to generate a bare earth surface model in which the above ground features are removed from the data set. The point cloud was manipulated within the Leica software; GeoCue, TerraScan, and TerraModeler software was used for the automated data classification, manual cleanup, and bare earth generation from this data. Project specific macros were used to classify the ground and to remove the side overlap between parallel flight lines. All data were manually reviewed and any remaining artifacts removed using functionality provided by TerraScan and TerraModeler. The project was tiled adhering to the State of New Jersey 5000'x5000' tile schema and each tile was saved in LAS format 1.1 including GPS time. Note: The Julian date and year written in the LAS header is actually the file creation date and has no connection to the acquisition date. However the GPS time (second of the week) is registered for each point in the LAS file and the week of acquisition can be deduced from the file name which include the GPS week (1474 = week starting 04/06/2008; 1475 = week starting 04/13/2008). When an area includes data from flightlines acquired over two different GPS weeks, separate files for the data captured in each of the weeks are delivered. For example tile B18D14 has data from both weeks; therefore there are two separate files: B18D14_1474.LAS & B18D14_1475.LAS.
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                  DateTime:  2008-07-15T00:00:00
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                description:  A Terrascan macro was used to classify the Lidar points inside rivers and lakes from class 2 to class 9. This classification was visually inspected by comparing the bare earth class against the hydro breaklines. Then the elevations were converted from feet to meters to meet the final delivery specifications.
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                  DateTime:  2008-07-01T00:00:00
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                description:  The NOAA Office for Coastal Management (OCM) received files in LAS format. The files contained LiDAR intensity and elevation measurements. OCM performed the following processing on the data to make it available within Digital Coast: 1. The data were converted from New Jersey State Plane coordinates to geographic coordinates. 2. The data were converted from NAVD88 heights to ellipsoid heights using Geoid03. 3. The LAS header fields were sorted by latitude and updated.
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                  DateTime:  2010-07-01T00:00:00
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                description:  Source Contribution: LiDAR points were used to produce the deliverables. | Source Geospatial Form: digital data | Type of Source Media: hard drive
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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:  2023-08-01T06:04:28
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