2013 AK DGGS Lidar: Golovin

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This publication presents lidar data collected over the community of Golovin, on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula in western Alaska (fig. 1). The original data were collected on November 5, 2013, by Quantum Spatial. The complete, classified lidar dataset was purchased by the State of Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys in 2014 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. The horizontal datum for this dataset is NAD83 (CORS96), the vertical datum is NAVD88, Geoid 09, and it is projected in UTM Zone 3 North. Units are in Meters. Data have been classified to Ground (class 2) and Default (class 1). Quantum Spatial collected the Golovin LiDAR data on 11/05/2013. This data set is an LAZ (compressed LAS) format file containing LIDAR point cloud data.
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