Rapid Response to 2011 Mississippi Flood

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5069/G9CF9N1J
OT Collection ID: OT.032014.26916.1
OT Collection Name: Rapid Response to 2011 Mississippi Flood
Short Name: MS11_Kumar
Collection Platform: Airborne Lidar
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    Collection Overview: NCALM Project. PI: Praveen Kumar, University of Illinois. The survey area consisted of a polygon located near the confluence of Ohio and Mississippi rivers, about 35 km east of Sikeston in the southeastern edge of the state of Missouri. These data were collected as a rapid response to a flooding event on the Mississippi River. The data were collected June 21-23, 2011.


    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: Rapid Response to 2011 Mississippi Flood. Distributed by OpenTopography. https://doi.org/10.5069/G9CF9N1J . Accessed: 2023-12-08

    Use License: CC BY 4.0

    Dataset Keywords: lidar

    Survey Date: 03/23/2011 - 06/21/2011

    Publication Date: 05/18/2014
    Total number of points: 1,670,375,138 pts

    Area: 195 km2

    Point Density: 8.57 pts/m2

    Classifications:
        Class 1 - Unclassified549,821,305
        Class 2 - Ground983,271,888
        Class 4 - Medium Vegetation136,215,586
        Class 6 - Building933,962
        Class 7 - Low Point (low noise)115,181
        Class 9 - Water17,216


    Coordinate System:
        Horizontal: NAD83 (CORS96) / UTM Zone 16N [EPSG: 26916]
        Vertical: NAVD88 (GEOID 09) [EPSG: 5703]

    Units: meter

    Survey Report: Reports

    LAS Validation Data Report: MS11_Kumar.html
    Tile index in shapefile format: Download

    Dataset Extent in KMZ format: Download

    Dataset Spatial Bounds: North: 36.991122100936°     South: 36.7552414702282°     East: -89.0839938718377°     West: -89.2829952368113°