These data were collected by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration National Geodetic Survey Remote Sensing Division using a Riegl VQ-820G system. The data were acquired from 201410- 201505 in fifty three missions along the coastline of Puerto Rico. The project consists of 525 square miles along the shores of Puerto Rico. This dataset contains 5721 - 500 m x 500 m lidar tiles. The data classifications for the data are: 1 - unclassified, 2 - ground, 7 - topo noise, 25 - water column, 26 - bathymetric bottom or submerged topography, 27 - water surface, and 30 - International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) S-57 objects.
Original contact information:
Contact Org: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), National Geodetic Survey (NGS), Remote Sensing Division
Title: Chief, Remote Sensing Division
Phone: 301-713-2663
This data set is an LAZ (compressed LAS) format file containing LIDAR point cloud data.