Hawaii Big Island Survey

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5069/G9DZ067X
OT Collection ID: OT.032012.32605.1
OT Collection Name: Hawaii Big Island Survey
Short Name: HI09_Big_Island
Collection Platform: Airborne Lidar
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    Collection Overview: This survey covers portions of Hawaii Volcano National Park, Upper Waiakea Forest Reserve, and Mauna Loa Forest Reserve on the Big Island of Hawaii. The survey area covers 299 square kilometers. These data were collected by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) on behalf of Steve Martel (University of Hawaii), Scott Rowland (University of Hawaii), Adam Soule (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) and Kathy Cashman (U. Oregon / Bristol U.).


    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 is provided by NSF's Division of Earth Sciences, Instrumentation and Facilities Program. EAR-1043051. Grant NSF EAR-0739153 (PI: Soule) and a NASA subcontract to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Award #1290138 (PI: Martel) also supported this data collection.

    Dataset Citation: Hawaii Big Island Survey. Distributed by OpenTopography. https://doi.org/10.5069/G9DZ067X . Accessed: 2024-04-20

    Use License: CC BY 4.0

    Dataset Keywords: lidar

    Survey Date: 06/21/2009 - 06/27/2009

    Publication Date: 03/07/2012
    Data Provider and Roles:
    Funder Collector
    Total number of points: 1,502,401,167 pts

    Area: 300 km2

    Point Density: 5.01 pts/m2

    Classifications:
        Class 1 - Unclassified1,188,820,574
        Class 2 - Ground310,701,424
        Class 6 - Building7,117
        Class 7 - Low Point (low noise)35,151
        Class 9 - Water2,835,086
        Class 10 - Rail1,815

    Raster Resolution: 1 meter

    Coordinate System:
        Horizontal: WGS84 (ITRF2000) / UTM Zone 05N Meters [EPSG: 32605]
        Vertical: NAVD88 (GEOID 03) [EPSG: 5703]

    Units: meter

    Survey Report: Reports

    LAS Validation Data Report: HI09_Big_Island.html
    Tile index in shapefile format: Download

    Dataset Extent in KMZ format: Download

    Dataset Spatial Bounds: North: 19.636919°     South: 19.229524°     East: -155.179307°     West: -155.610618°