EarthScope Northern California Lidar Project

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Overview

The EarthScope Northern California Lidar project acquired high resolution airborne laser swath mapping imagery along major active faults as part of the EarthScope Facility project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Between this project and the previously conducted B4 project, also funded by NSF, the entire San Andreas fault system has now been imaged with high resolution airborne lidar, along with many other important geologic features. EarthScope is funded by NSF and conducted in partnership with the USGS and NASA. GeoEarthScope is a component of EarthScope that includes the acquisition of aerial and satellite imagery and geochronology. EarthScope is managed at UNAVCO.

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This material is based on services provided to the Plate Boundary Observatory by NCALM (https://ncalm.cive.uh.edu/). PBO is operated by UNAVCO for EarthScope (http://www.earthscope.org) and supported by the National Science Foundation (No. EAR-0350028 and EAR-0732947).


Publications associated with this dataset can be found at NCALM's Data Tracking Center

Platform: Airborne Lidar
Survey Area: 2,448 km2
Point Density: 5.17 pts/m2
Survey Date: 03/21/2007 - 04/17/2007
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Data Citation
Use License: CC BY 4.0
Funder: NSF     Partners: EarthScope, UNAVCO     Collector: NCALM

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1. Coordinates & Classification

Horizontal Coordinates: WGS84 / UTM Zone 10N Meters [EPSG: 32610]
Vertical Coordinates: Ellipsoid
Units: meter

Data Selection Coordinates:       Manually enter selection coordinates (in the horizontal coordinate system listed above)  
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  Vegetation        
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2. Point Cloud Data Download

     Point cloud data in LAZ format
    Point cloud data in LAS format
     Point cloud data in ASCII format

3A. DEM Generation (TIN)  

Gridding Method
    Calculate TIN
Gridding Parameters
  Grid Resolution (Default = 1 meter)
  Max. triangle size (Default 50 units)
  Grid Format

3B. DEM Generation (Local Gridding)  

Gridding Method
     Calculate Zmin grid
     Calculate Zmax grid
     Calculate Zmean grid
     Calculate Zidw grid
     Calculate standard deviation
     Calculate point count
Gridding Parameters
  Grid Resolution (Default = 1 meter)
  Radius value (Default = 1.4142 meter)
  Grid Format
  Null Filling

4. Raster Visualization  

Visualization type:
  Hillshade
  Color-relief
  Color hillshade
  Slope
  Aspect
  Roughness

5. 3D Point Cloud Visualization  

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6. Contour Lines  

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Data Citation     |     Use License: CC BY 4.0