Dewberry collected LiDAR for ~3,341 square miles in various Virginia Counties, a part of Worcester County, and Hoopers Island. The acquisition was performed by Terrapoint. This metadata covers the LiDAR produced for the Virginia Counties North project area. The nominal pulse spacing for this project is 1.6 ft (0.5 meters). This project was collected with a sensor which collects intensity values for each discrete pulse extracted from the waveform. GPS Week Time, Intensity, Flightline and echo number attributes were provided for each LiDAR point. Dewberry used proprietary procedures to classify the LAS according to contract specifications: 1-Unclassified, 2-Ground, 7-Noise, 9-Water, 10-Ignored Ground due to breakline proximity, and 11-Withheld (Reclassed to 15). Dewberry produced 3D breaklines and combined these with the final LiDAR data to produce seamless hydro flattened DEMs for the 2,140 tiles (5000 ft x 5000 ft) that cover the project area.
This collection has been divided into 2 parts (North and South), due to a portion of the data being collected in two zones: Virginia State Plane North 4501 and Virginia State Plane South 4502.
This data set is an LAZ (compressed LAS) format file containing LIDAR point cloud data.