2008 USACE Great Lakes Topo/Bathy Lidar: Wisconsin

Resource Abstract:

These files contain topographic and bathymetric lidar data collected by the Compact Hydrographic Airborne Rapid Total Survey (CHARTS) system along the coast of Wisconsin. CHARTS integrates topographic and bathymetric lidar sensors, a digital camera and a hyperspectral scanner on a single remote sensing platform for use in coastal mapping and charting activities. Data coverage generally extends along the coastline from the waterline inland 500 meters (topography) and offshore 1,000 meters or to laser extinction (bathymetry). Native lidar data is not generally in a format accessible to most Geographical 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 (NAD83). Vertical positions are referenced to the NAD83 ellipsoid and provided in meters. The National Geodetic Survey's (NGS) GEOID03 model is used to transform the vertical positions from ellipsoid to orthometric heights referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88). The 3-D position data are sub-divided into a series of ASCII file products, with each covering approximately 5 kilometers of shoreline. The file index is provided by the shape file, "wi_michigan.shp", and the numbers used to identify files are in the "Box" field of the shape file. The data file naming convention is based on the year, project, area name, "Box" number and product type (topographic or bathymetric). An example file name is "2008_NCMP_WI_Michigan_01_TL.xyz", where 2008 is the year of data collection, NCMP is the project under which data were collected, WI_Michigan is the area of data collection, 01 is the "Box" number and H, TF, or TL is the product type. The ASCII columns are Longitude, Latitude, UTM Zone, Easting, Northing, Elevation (orthometric), Elevation (ellipsoid), Date, Time, and Intensity.

Citation

Title 2008 USACE Great Lakes Topo/Bathy Lidar: Wisconsin

publication  Date   2008-01-01

presentationForm  imageDigital

cited responsible party - originator

organisation Name  DOC/NOAA/NOS/OCM > Office for Coastal Management, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce

Contact information

Telephone

Voice 843-740-1200

Address

2234 South Hobson Ave., Charleston, SC, 29405-2413

electronic Mail Address coastal.info@noaa.gov

Linkage for online resource

URL: http://coast.noaa.gov

cited responsible party - originator

organisation Name  US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of eXpertise (JALBTCX)

position Name Data Production Manager

Contact information

Telephone

Voice 228-252-1131

Voice 228-252-1121

Fax 228-252-1133

Address

7225 Stennis Airport Rd, STE 100, Kiln, MS, 39556 Country US

electronic Mail Address JALBTCX@usace.army.mil

hoursOfService 8 am - 5 pm Monday through Friday

cited responsible party - publisher

organisation Name  DOC/NOAA/NOS/OCM > Office for Coastal Management, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce

Contact information

Telephone

Voice 843-740-1200

Address

2234 South Hobson Ave., Charleston, SC, 29405-2413

electronic Mail Address coastal.info@noaa.gov

Linkage for online resource

URL: http://coast.noaa.gov

Topic Category:  elevation

Data quality information