Merced, CA: Origin and Evolution of the Mima Mounds

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5069/G93B5X3Q
OT Collection ID: OT.012013.26910.2
OT Collection Name: Merced, CA: Origin and Evolution of the Mima Mounds
Short Name: CA06_Reed
Collection Platform: Airborne Lidar
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    Collection Overview: NCALM Seed Project. PI: Sarah Reed, University of California, Berkeley. This lidar survey was conducted on Sunday, September 17, 2006 on a 33 square kilometer polygon northeast of Merced in Merced County, California. These data were collected to investigate the origin and evolution of Mima mounds in California's Central Valley.


    Publications associated with this dataset can be found at NCALM's Data Tracking Center



    Dataset Acknowledgement: Lidar data acquisition and processing completed by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM - https://ncalm.cive.uh.edu). NCALM funding provided by NSF's Division of Earth Sciences, Instrumentation and Facilities Program. EAR-1043051.

    Dataset Citation: Merced, CA: Origin and Evolution of the Mima Mounds. Distributed by OpenTopography. https://doi.org/10.5069/G93B5X3Q . Accessed: 2024-04-20

    Use License: CC BY 4.0

    Dataset Keywords: lidar

    Survey Date: 09/17/2006

    Publication Date: 01/28/2013
    Total number of points: 95,745,348 pts

    Area: 33 km2

    Point Density: 2.9 pts/m2

    Classifications:
        Class 0 - Never classified95,745,348

    Raster Resolution: 1 meter

    Coordinate System:
        Horizontal: NAD83 (CORS96) / UTM Zone 10N Meters [EPSG: 26910]
        Vertical: NAVD88 (GEOID 03) [EPSG: 5703]

    Units: meter

    Survey Report: Reports

    LAS Validation Data Report: CA06_Reed.html
    Tile index in shapefile format: Download

    Dataset Extent in KMZ format: Download

    Dataset Spatial Bounds: North: 37.4661489568469°     South: 37.3890696346791°     East: -120.376004957442°     West: -120.463006528017°