These files contain classified topo/bathy lidar data. Data are classified as 1 (valid non-ground topographic data), 2 (valid ground topographic data), and 29 (valid bathymetric data). Classes 1 and 2 are defined in accordance with the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) classification standards. These data were collected by the Coastal Zone Mapping and Imaging Lidar (CZMIL) system. CZMIL integrates a lidar sensor with simultaneous topographic and bathymetric capabilities, a digital camera and a hyperspectral imager 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 Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Specialized in-house and commercial software packages are used to process the native lidar data into 3-dimensional positions that can be imported into GIS software for visualization and further analysis. Horizontal positions, provided in decimal degrees of latitude and longitude, are referenced to the North American Datum of 1983 National Adjustment of 2011 (NAD83 NA2011). Vertical positions are referenced to the (NAD83 NA11) ellipsoid and provided in meters. Vertical positions are in ellipsoid. The 3-D position data are sub-divided into a series of LAS files, which are tiled into quarter-quads or 5km boxes. This data was provided to the NOAA Office for Coastal Management (OCM) for data distribution from the Data Access Viewer (DAV). The lidar point data are available for custom and bulk download. In addition to this lidar point data, the topobathy 1 meter bare earth Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data that were created from the lidar point data, are also available from the NOAA Data Access Viewer. The link to this data is provided in the URL section of this metadata record. Original contact information: Contact Org: JALBTCX Title: Data Production Manager Phone: 228-252-1131 Email: JALBTCX@usace.army.mil This data set is an LAZ (compressed LAS) format file containing LIDAR point cloud data.