These files contain topographic and bathymetric lidar data collected as part of the National Coastal Mapping Program. Data acquisition occured between May and June 2010. The coverage area includes Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina coasts from Cape Canaveral, FL to Cape Lookout, NC. Data coverage generally extends along the coastline from the waterline inland 500 meters. This data was collected by a Leica ALS 50 Phase II Plus, Digital Aerial Camera System (DACS II) and CASI 1500 Hyperspectral sensor. The data was collected on a single remote sensing platform for use in coastal mapping and charting activities. Native lidar data is not generally in a format accessible to most Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Specialized in-house and commercial software processes the native lidar data into 3-dimensional positions that can be imported into GIS software for visualization and further analysis.The 3-D position data are used to generate a series of gridded file products, with each covering approximately 5 kilometers of shoreline. In addition to these lidar point data, the bare earth Digital Elevation Models (DEM) created from the lidar point data are also available. These data are available for custom download at the link provided in the URL section of this metadata record. This data set is an LAZ (compressed LAS) format file containing LIDAR point cloud data.