DOI: https://doi.org/10.5069/G9057D42
OT Collection ID: OT.062023.26910.7
OT Collection Name: USFS Taliaferro Ridge Lidar, CA 2013
Short Name: CA13_Talia
Collection Platform: Airborne Lidar

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Download and Access Products: 
	1. Point Cloud Data
		opentopoID: OTLAS.062023.26910.7
		Data Processing: https://portal.opentopography.org/lidarDataset?opentopoID=OTLAS.062023.26910.7

	2. Raster
		opentopoID: OTSDEM.062023.26910.7
		Data Processing: https://portal.opentopography.org/raster?opentopoID=OTSDEM.062023.26910.7


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Collection Overview: Lidar was collected over the Howard Lake Slide-Taliferro Annex area in the Mendocino National Forest on October 22nd 2013 for the USFS Pacific Region. Data were collected to provide a highly detailed ground surface dataset to be used for the development of topographic, contour mapping and hydraulic modeling. This dataset covers 14,641 acres ( 59.25 km2)

Dataset Acknowledgement: Data were collected by the US Forest Service using public funds and can be freely used in the public domain

Dataset Citation: U.S. Forest Service Region 5 Remote Sensing Lab Information Management Staff. (2023). USFS Taliaferro Ridge Lidar, CA 2013. Collected by Digital Mapping Inc. Distributed by OpenTopography. https://doi.org/10.5069/G9057D42. Accessed: 2025-04-20

Use License: CC0 1.0

Dataset Keywords: BurnPro3D,California, fire, Howard Lake, Taliaferro Ridge, landslide, Mendocino, ecology, topography, forestry, USFS

Survey Date: 10/22/2013
Publication Date: 06/29/2023

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Data Provider and Roles:
	1. United States Forest Service
	Role: Author
	Url: Not Available.

	2. Digital Mapping Inc.
	Role: Collector
	Url: http://admap.com/

	3. United States Forest Service
	Role: Funder
	Url: https://www.fs.usda.gov/


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Total number of points: 861,814,462 pts

Area: 59.25 km^2

Point Density: 14.55 pts/m^2

Classifications: 
	Class 1 - Unclassified: 219,826,895
	Class 2 - Ground: 173,616,631
	Class 3 - Low Vegetation: 163,853,556
	Class 4 - Medium Vegetation: 187,786,688
	Class 5 - High Vegetation: 116,698,113
	Class 7 - Low Point (low noise): 12,067
	Class 10 - Rail: 2
	Class 15 - Transmission Tower: 11,580
	Class 21 - Reserved: 8,930
Coordinates System: 
	Horizontal: NAD83 / UTM Zone 10N Meters [EPSG: 26910]
	Vertical: NAVD88 (GEOID 12A) [EPSG: 5703]

Survey Report: https://object.cloud.sdsc.edu:443/v1/AUTH_opentopography/www/metadata/CA13_Talia_metadata.pdf

LAS Validation Data Report: https://portal.opentopography.org/lasReport?opentopoID=OTLAS.062023.26910.7

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Dataset Boundary in GeoJSON format: 
	Point Cloud: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenTopography/Data_Catalog_Spatial_Boundaries/main/OpenTopography_Point_Cloud_Lidar/CA13_Talia.geojson
	Raster: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenTopography/Data_Catalog_Spatial_Boundaries/main/OpenTopography_Raster/CA13_Talia.geojson

Dataset Extent (Bounding Box):
	North: 39.929022743040434°
	South: 39.86097489089592°
	East: -122.93840564022766°
	West: -123.12248491570953°