1999 NASA/NOAA/USGS ATM Lidar: East Coast, Post Hurricane Dennis (NC, VA, MD) 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 1999 NASA/NOAA/USGS ATM Lidar: East Coast, Post Hurricane Dennis (NC, VA, MD) 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).

Data in ITRF ellipsoid heights were converted to NAD83 ellipsoid heights prior to the application of a GEOID model.

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 urllist60.txt. Several posts on the GeoZone blog provide help with downloading, including:

The total size to download all the files is 318M. There are 34 LAZ files and the summary class table is:
Class NumberClass NamePoints
0Never Classified76729496
7Low Point (noise)618227

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/geoid18/60.

Meta Info

Tile Index: tileindex.zip (Shapefile)
                1999_SC-NC-VA_Post-Dennis_index.gpkg (GeoPackage)
Metadata: 1999_SC-NC-VA_Post-Dennis_metadata.xml
Metadata: 1999_SC-NC-VA_Post-Dennis_metadata.html
XYZ range table: 1999_SC-NC-VA_Post-Dennis_minmax.csv
README: 0README.txt (contains similar information to above)
URL List: urllist60.txt is a list of all the URLs for batch downloading.

Supplemental Info

supplemental/index.html
supplemental/post_dennis_m60_area.kmz

Point Clouds

19990909atm2_191222jr.laz
19990909atm1_180543sr.laz
19990909atm2_190242jr.laz
19990909atm2_185222jr.laz
19990909atm2_181826jr.laz
19990909atm1_175330sr.laz
19990909atm2_180545jr.laz
19990909atm1_174026sr.laz
19990909atm2_175331jr.laz
19990909atm1_172214sr.laz
19990909atm2_174027jr.laz
19990909atm1_170726sr.laz
19990909atm2_172221jr.laz
19990909atm2_170730jr.laz
19990909atm1_164940sr.laz
19990909atm2_164946jr.laz
19990909atm1_163653sr.laz
19990909atm2_163653jr.laz
19990909atm1_162321sr.laz
19990909atm1_160903sr.laz
19990909atm2_162323jr.laz
19990909atm1_155840sr.laz
19990909atm2_160905jr.laz
19990909atm1_154323sr.laz
19990909atm2_155846jr.laz
19990909atm2_154316jr.laz
19990909atm1_153051sr.laz
19990909atm2_153024jr.laz
19990908_VA_MD_ATM2.laz
19990908_VA_MD_ATM1.laz
19990909atm1_191204sr.laz
19990909atm1_190239sr.laz
19990909atm1_185222sr.laz
19990909atm1_181821sr.laz

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