Medicine Bow NF, WY: Forest Ecosystem Impacts by Mountain Pine Beetle

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5069/G91N7Z2X
OT Collection ID: OT.082012.26913.1
OT Collection Name: Medicine Bow NF, WY: Forest Ecosystem Impacts by Mountain Pine Beetle
Short Name: WY11_Biederman
Collection Platform: Airborne Lidar
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    Collection Overview: NCALM Seed. PI: Joel Biederman, University of Arizona. The survey area is a 35 square kilometer polygon located 54 km southwest of Laramie, Wyoming. Data were collected to investigate the application of lidar data to models for water, energy and biogeochemical cycling in mountain ecosystems impacted by the Mountain Pine Beetle.


    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: Medicine Bow NF, WY: Forest Ecosystem Impacts by Mountain Pine Beetle. Distributed by OpenTopography. https://doi.org/10.5069/G91N7Z2X . Accessed: 2024-04-26

    Use License: CC BY 4.0

    Dataset Keywords: lidar

    Survey Date: 08/26/2011

    Publication Date: 08/22/2012
    Total number of points: 316,486,651 pts

    Area: 35 km2

    Point Density: 9.04 pts/m2

    Classifications:
        Class 1 - Unclassified203,938,608
        Class 2 - Ground112,542,159
        Class 7 - Low Point (low noise)5,884


    Coordinate System:
        Horizontal: NAD83 (CORS96) / UTM Zone 13N Meters [EPSG: 26913]
        Vertical: NAVD88 (GEOID 09) [EPSG: 5703]

    Units: meter

    Survey Report: Reports

    LAS Validation Data Report: WY11_Biederman.html
    Tile index in shapefile format: Download

    Dataset Extent in KMZ format: Download

    Dataset Spatial Bounds: North: 41.0801713430685°     South: 41.0389772050338°     East: -106.094846982985°     West: -106.190466901859°