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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    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: 2024-04-19

    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 KMZ format: Download

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