USFS Kern Plateau Lidar, CA 2011

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Overview

USFS logo Lidar data was collected over the Kern Plateau in the Sequoia National Forest, California for the USDA Forest Service between August 13th – 18th, 2011. The Kern Plateau project area covers over 134,00 acres (>544 km2).
Platform: Airborne Lidar
Survey Area: 545.02 km2
Point Density: 9.18 pts/m2
Survey Date: 08/13/2011 - 08/18/2011
Full Metadata
Data Citation
Use License: CC0 1.0
Funder: USFS     Collector: WSI

Other Available Data Products:   Raster
1a. Select area of data to download or process  
  Usage Heat Map
 

1. Coordinates & Classification

Horizontal Coordinates: UTM Zone 11N NAD83 (CORS96) [EPSG: 26911]
Vertical Coordinates: NAVD88 (GEOID 03) [EPSG: 5703]
Units: meter

Data Selection Coordinates:       Manually enter selection coordinates (in the horizontal coordinate system listed above)  
  Choose Return Classification    
  Building        
  Ground        
  Unclassified        
  Water surface        
  Exclude Noise

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 all (single layered image) 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. Derivative Products  

    Generate hillshade and slope grids
This algorithm requires at least one grid is selected in step 3A, 3B (DEM Generation: Zmin, Zmax, Zmean, Zidw or TIN) above.

5A. 3D Point Cloud Visualization  

  Generate 3D point cloud browser visualization

5B. Visualization  

  Generate hillshade images from DEMs
  Generate additional color-relief and colored hillshades
  Generate additional Google Earth KMZ files
Altitude of the light:  (in range: [0-90] degrees)
Azimuth of the light:  (in range: [0-360] degrees)

6. Contour Lines  

7. Hydrologic Terrain Analysis Products (tauDEM)  

This tauDEM is an advanced processing service. It is available for registered users, who understand these resource intensive algorithms and its products.
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