2012 USGS Lidar: Post-Sandy (DE,MD,NC,NY,VA)

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Overview

Binary point-cloud data were produced for a portion of the New York, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina coastlines, post-Hurricane Sandy (Sandy was an October 2012 hurricane that made landfall as an extratropical cyclone on the 29th), from remotely sensed, geographically referenced elevation measurements collected by Photo Science, Inc. (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina) and Woolpert, Inc. (Fire Island, New York) using airborne lidar sensors. This data set is an LAZ (compressed LAS) format file containing LIDAR point cloud data.
Total points: 2,152,162,958 pts
Survey Area: 1,289 km2
Point Density: 1.67 pts/m2
Survey Date: 11/05/2012 - 11/29/2012
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