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Collection Overview: Airborne Lidar data of Wax Lake Delta, Louisiana, USA, a delta prograding into Atchafalaya Bay, Gulf of Mexico.

Note: The rasters available for this dataset will not exactly match those produced from the point cloud. To get the same rasters start with the complete unclassified point cloud and follow the methods described in the full metadata file.

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). NCALM funding provided by NSF's Division of Earth Sciences, Instrumentation and Facilities Program.

Dataset Citation: Wax Lake Delta, Louisiana, USA 2009. Distributed by OpenTopography. https://doi.org/10.5069/G95M63M8 . Accessed: 2024-04-16

Use License: CC BY 4.0

Dataset Keywords: Wax Lake Delta, Louisiana, prograding, Gulf of Mexico, Atchafalaya Bay, lidar

Survey Date: 01/14/2009

Publication Date: 10/28/2016

Data Provider and Roles:
Funder

• National Science Foundation

Collector

• National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping

Total number of points: 386,598,082 pts

Area: 228.87 km²

Point Density: 1.69 pts/m²

Classifications:

Class 1 - Unclassified	203,961,214
Class 2 - Ground	182,630,791
Class 7 - Low Point (low noise)	6,077

Raster Resolution: 1 meter

Coordinate System:
    Horizontal: NAD83 / UTM Zone 15N Meters [EPSG: 26915]
    Vertical: NAVD88 (GEOID 03) [EPSG: 5703]

Units: meter

Survey Report: Reports

LAS Validation Data Report: LA09_Buttles.html

Tile index in shapefile format: Download

Dataset Extent in KMZ format: Download

Dataset Spatial Bounds: North: 29.5683056496068°     South: 29.4152268516171°     East: -91.349615599099°     West: -91.5420008590938°