Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Lidar Program Data
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Resource Abstract:
DOGAMI has been supervising and coordinating the collection of large swaths of high resolution, high accuracy lidar data in
Oregon and adjacent states since 2006. Following a successful 2500 mi2 consortium effort in the Portland urban area, the Oregon
legislature designated DOGAMI as the lead agency for lidar acquisition in Oregon. DOGAMI used a nationwide selection process
that resulted in a state price agreement (OPA 8865) with Watershed Sciences Inc. of Corvallis, Oregon. The price agreement
specifies data collection (8 pulse/m2, Zerror 2, has taken final delivery of 16,000 mi2 of data. Funding for these projects
has come from consortia organized by DOGAMI that include several dozen Federal, State and local government agencies, non-profits
and public utilities. The data quality for all projects that DOGAMI has completed under OPA 8865 has been consistently excellent,
substantially exceeding the minimum specifications. All DOGAMI lidar data is in the public domain, please reference DOGAMI
as the data source. All DOGAMI lidar program data are systematically evaluated for: Completeness and useability by loading
all files; swath to swath consistency by using TerraMatch to compare elevations of millions of coincident points from adjacent
swaths, all values to date < 5cm; absolute vertical accuracy by comparing delivered DEMs to an large independent set of RTK
GPS control points collected by DOGAMI, all values to date < 7cm RMSE; grid artifacts by visual examination of hillshade and
slopeshade images of all bare earth and highest hit DEMs.
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Title Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Lidar Program Data