Product: Several products were collected and created for the project extent in Allegany and Steuben County, New York. These products include unclassified Swath LAS, Classified & Tiled LAS files, and Bare Earth Digital Elevation Models (DEM). This metadata record describes the las point data. Geographic Extent: Allegany and Steuben County, New York, covering approximately 1,316 square miles. Dataset Description: Allegany and Steuben County, New York 2016 Lidar project called for the Planning, Acquisition, processing and derivative products of lidar data to be collected at a nominal pulse spacing (NPS) of 0.7 meter. Project specifications are based on the U.S. Geological Survey National Geospatial Program Base Lidar Specification, Version 1.2. Lidar data was delivered as flightline-extent unclassified LAS swaths, as processed Classified LAS 1.4 files, formatted to 1516 individual 1500 m x 1500 m tiles, as tiled bare earth DEMs; all tiled to the same 1500 m x 1500 m schema. Ground Conditions: Lidar was collected in early 2016, while no snow was on the ground and rivers were at or below normal levels. In order to post process the lidar data to meet task order specifications and meet ASPRS vertical accuracy guidelines, New York Office of Information Technology Services established a total of 26 ground control points that were used to calibrate the lidar to known ground locations established throughout the Allegany and Steuben County, New York project area. An additional 111 independent accuracy checkpoints, 61 in Bare Earth and Urban landcovers (61 NVA points). Please note that 3 of the 61 total NVA point were excluded from the solution due to being outside of the LiDAR coverage area. 50 in Tall Grass and Brushland/Low Trees categories (50 VVA points) were used to assess the vertical accuracy of the data. Please note that 2 VVA points out of the 50 collected were excluded due to being outside of the collection area. These checkpoints were not used to calibrate or post process the data. In addition to these lidar point data, the bare earth Digital Elevation Models (DEM) created from the lidar point data are also available. These data are available for custom download at the link provided in the URL section of this metadata record. This data set is an LAZ (compressed LAS) format file containing LIDAR point cloud data.