Plum Island, MA

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5069/G9TT4NWP
OT Collection ID: OT.012013.26986.1
OT Collection Name: Plum Island, MA
Short Name: MA05_Valentine
Collection Platform: Airborne Lidar
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Point Cloud DataBulk DownloadopentopoID: OTLAS.012013.26986.1
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GE HillshadesopentopoID: OTGE.012013.26986.1
Collection Overview: NCALM Project. PI: Vinton Valentine, Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory. The survey area is an irregular polygon (148 square kilometers) at the Plum Island River in northeast Massachusetts. The eastern third of the polygon was flown on Monday April 18, 2005. The central third was flown early Tuesday morning April 19, 2005 and the last third (the Parker River area) was flown on the afternoon of the 19th.


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: Plum Island, MA. Distributed by OpenTopography. https://doi.org/10.5069/G9TT4NWP . Accessed: 2024-12-21       Copied to Clipboard

Use License: CC BY 4.0

Dataset Keywords: lidar

Survey Date: 03/18/2005 - 03/19/2005

Publication Date: 01/28/2013
Total number of points: 283,918,292 pts

Area: 148 km2

Point Density: 1.92 pts/m2

Classifications:
Class 1 - Unclassified134,645,393
Class 2 - Ground149,272,899

Raster Resolution: 1 meter

Coordinate System:
Horizontal: MA-Mainland State Plane (CORS96) [EPSG: 26986]
Vertical: NAVD88 (GEOID 03) [EPSG: 5703]

Units: meter

Survey Report: Reports

LAS Validation Data Report: MA05_Valentine.html
Tile index in shapefile format: Download

Dataset Extent in GeoJSON format:
Point Cloud: MA05_Valentine.geojson
Raster: MA05_Valentine.geojson
Raster: MA05_Valentine.geojson

Dataset Spatial Bounds: North: 42.809796°     South: 42.647469°     East: -70.74246°     West: -70.961522°