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
Download and Access Products:
Point Cloud DataBulk DownloadopentopoID: OTLAS.112011.26916.1
Raster DataBulk DownloadopentopoID: OTSDEM.112011.26916.1
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: 2024-12-10       Copied to Clipboard

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 GeoJSON format:
Point Cloud: AL09_Starr.geojson
Raster: AL09_Starr.geojson

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