This report is a summary of a LiDAR data collection over the community of Unalakleet, in the Norton Sound region of Alaska. The original data were collected on October 27, 2005 by AeroMetric, Inc., under contract by Rodney P. Kinney and Associates, Inc. The complete, classified LiDAR dataset was purchased by the State of Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys in 2013 in support of coastal vulnerability mapping efforts. For the purposes of open access to LiDAR datasets in coastal regions of Alaska, this collection is being released as a Raw Data File with an open end-user license. A copy of this data was supplied to the NOAA Office for Coastal Management for incorporation into the NOAA Digital Coast. The classifications of data available from the NOAA Digital Coast are: 1 (Unclassified), 2 (Ground), 3 (Low Vegetation), 4 (Medium Vegetation), 5 (High Vegetation), 6 (Buildings), 9 (Water), 10 (Ignored Ground, breakline proximity).
Original contact information:
Contact Org: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys
Title: GIS Manager
Phone: (907)451-5020
Email: dggsgis@alaska.gov
This data set is an LAZ (compressed LAS) format file containing LIDAR point cloud data.