Tuscaloosa, AL: Seasonal Inundation Dynamics And Invertebrate Communities

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5069/G9SF2T3K
OT Collection ID: OT.112011.26916.1
OT Collection Name: Tuscaloosa, AL: Seasonal Inundation Dynamics And Invertebrate Communities
Short Name: AL09_Starr
Collection Platform: Airborne Lidar
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    Collection Overview: NCALM Seed Project. PI: Scott Starr, University of Alabama. The area of interest is defined by a quadrilateral polygon with an area of 39.5 km2 located 20 km west of Tuscaloosa, AL. The data were collected for predicting seasonal inundation dynamics and invertebrate community structure of an unregulated southeastern river floodplain.


    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: Tuscaloosa, AL: Seasonal Inundation Dynamics And Invertebrate Communities. Distributed by OpenTopography. https://doi.org/10.5069/G9SF2T3K . Accessed: 2024-04-19

    Use License: CC BY 4.0

    Dataset Keywords: lidar

    Survey Date: 12/01/2010

    Publication Date: 12/01/2011
    Total number of points: 581,480,937 pts

    Area: 53.6 km2

    Point Density: 10.85 pts/m2

    Classifications:
        Class 1 - Unclassified106,136,181
        Class 2 - Ground190,556,951
        Class 4 - Medium Vegetation284,368,757
        Class 6 - Building324,988
        Class 7 - Low Point (low noise)16
        Class 8 - Model Key/Reserved91,892
        Class 9 - Water2,152

    Raster Resolution: 1 meter

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

    Units: meter

    Survey Report: Reports

    LAS Validation Data Report: AL09_Starr.html
    Tile index in shapefile format: Download

    Dataset Extent in KMZ format: Download

    Dataset Spatial Bounds: North: 33.272339°     South: 33.159228°     East: -87.745291°     West: -87.836584°