Dataset Identification:

Resource Abstract:
This Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) LAS dataset is a topographic survey conducted for a coalition of GIS practitioners, including the Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM), Florida Water Management Districts, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District, and other state and federal agencies. The goal for this project is to use the LiDAR data as new elevation inputs for updated SLOSH data grids. The ultimate result is the update of the Regional Hurricane Evacuation Studies (RHES) for the state. The State of Florida Division of Emergency Management LiDAR Survey was collected under the guidance of a Professional Mapper/Surveyor. Data were collected for 167 square miles in coastal Okaloosa County, Florida from July 15, 2007 to August 21, 2007. This is a classified lidar data set. The data are classified: 1 = Unclassified, 2 = Ground (Bare Earth), 7 = Noise and 9 = Water. The FDEM Baseline Specifications required a maximum post spacing of 4 feet, however, the PDS (Program and Data Solutions) team required a much higher point density of its subcontractors in order to increase the probability of penetrating dense foliage during the mandated summer acquisition; with nominal post spacing of 0.7 meters per flight line and 50% sidelap between flight lines, the average point density is 4 points per square meter.
Citation
Title 2007 Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) Lidar Project: Coastal Okaloosa County
publication  Date   2008-05-05
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 Addresscoastal.info@noaa.gov
Linkage for online resource
URL:http://coast.noaa.gov
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM)
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 850-413-9969
Address
2555 Shumard Oak Boulevard, Tallahassee, FL, 32399-2100 Country USA
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 Addresscoastal.info@noaa.gov
Linkage for online resource
URL:http://coast.noaa.gov
Topic Category:  elevation
Theme keywords (theme):
Bathymetry/Topography
DTM
Elevation
Lidar
thesaurus name >
Title None
Location keywords:
United States
Florida
Okaloosa County
thesaurus name >
Title None
purpose:
The LiDAR topographic mapping survey is to support the Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) development and maintenance of Regional Hurricane Evacuations Studies (RHES), which include vulnerability assessments, and to assist disaster response personnel in understanding the threats to Florida's citizens and visitors. Additional intended uses for this survey are growth management, map modernization/floodplain mapping, natural lands stewardship, and homeland security planning.
Browse image (thumbnail):
thumbnail file name: ...
file type: kmz
thumbnail file description:  This kmz file shows the extent of coverage for the 2007 FDEM Okaloosa County, FL lidar data set.
Resource language:  eng; USA
Resource progress code:  completed
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:  asNeeded
Constraints on resource usage:
Constraints
Use limitation statement:
These data depict the elevations at the time of the survey and are only accurate for that time. Users should be aware that temporal changes may have occurred since this data set was collected and some parts of this data may no longer represent actual surface conditions. Users should not use this data for critical applications without a full awareness of its limitations. Any conclusions drawn from analysis of this information are not the responsibility of NOAA or any of its partners. These data are NOT to be used for navigational purposes.
Constraints on resource usage:
Legal Constraints
Use Limitation
While every effort has been made to ensure that these data are accurate and reliable within the limits of the current state of the art, NOAA cannot assume liability for any damages caused by any errors or omissions in the data, nor as a result of the failure of the data to function on a particular system. NOAA makes no warranty, expressed or implied, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty.
Spatial representation type code:  vector
Resource extent
Geographic Extent
Geographic Bounding Box
westBoundLongitude  -86.798479
eastBoundLongitude  -86.366291
northBoundLatitude  30.554057
southBoundLatitude  30.367834
Temporal Extent
2007-07-15 2007-08-21
point of contact - pointOfContact
organisation Name  Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM)
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 850-413-9969
Address
2555 Shumard Oak Boulevard, Tallahassee, FL, 32399-2100 Country USA
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Vector spatial representation information

Geometric Objects
geometric Object Type  point
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reference system 1

Reference System Identifier
Identifier string: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4269
authority
Title North American Datum 1983
alternateTitle  NAD83
revision  Date   2007-01-19
cited responsible party - resourceProvider
organisation Name
Contact information
Linkage for online resource
name NAD83
URL:http://www.epsg-registry.org/export.htm?gml=urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4269
link function information
Description Link to Geographic Markup Language (GML) description of reference system.
cited responsible party - publisher
organisation Name  European Petroleum Survey Group
Contact information
Linkage for online resource
name European Petroleum Survey Group Geodetic Parameter Registry
URL:http://www.epsg-registry.org/
link function search
Description Registry that accesses the EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset, which is a structured dataset of Coordinate Reference Systems and Coordinate Transformations.
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reference system 2

Reference System Identifier
Identifier string: Ellipsoid in Meters
Identifier code space:  Local Vertical Reference
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Scope of quality information
scope level  dataset
Resource lineage description
source
source description  Source Contribution: LiDAR dataset was used to create intensity stereopairs for 3D breakline compilation and for contour generation.Source Type: online
source citation
Title Lidar
publication  Date   2008-05-01
presentationForm  mapDigital
other Citation Details  LiDAR Survey of Oklaoosa County, Florida, conducted in the summer of 2007 under a contract of Dewberry & Davis, LLC in support of the Florida Division of Emergency Management.
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  SANBORN MAP COMPANY
Resource extent
Temporal Extent
2007-07-15 2007-08-21
AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy
name Of Measure Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
evaluation Method Description  Lidar source compiled to meet 1m horizontal accuracy.
AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy
name Of Measure Horizontal Positional Accuracy
measure Description  The PDS team does not perform independent horizontal accuracy testing on the LiDAR. LiDAR vendors perform calibrations on the LiDAR sensor and compare data to adjoining flight lines to ensure LiDAR meets the 1 meter horizontal accuracy standard at the 95% confidence level.
Quantitative Result
result value 1
value Units
AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy
name Of Measure Vertical Positional Accuracy Report
evaluation Method Description  The LiDAR is required to meet 0.60 feet Fundamental Vertical Accuracy (FVA) and 1.19 feet Consolidated Vertical Accuracy (CVA).
AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy
name Of Measure Vertical Positional Accuracy
measure Description  Based on the vertical accuracy testing conducted by PDS, using NSSDA and FEMA methodology, vertical accuracy at the 95% confidence level (called Accuracyz) is computed by the formula RMSEz x 1.9600. The dataset for Okaloosa County, Florida satisfies the criteria: Countywide lidar dataset tested 0.49 ft (0.15 m) FVA vertical accuracy at 95% confidence level in open terrain, based on open terrain RMSEz (0.25 ft) x 1.9600. Countywide lidar dataset tested 0.78 ft (0.24 m) CVA vertical accuracy at 95% confidence level in all land cover categories combined, based on consolidated RMSEz (0.40 ft) x 1.9600.
Quantitative Result
result value 0.15
value Units
Completeness Commission
evaluation Method Description  A visual qualitative assessment was performed in the source Lidar dataset.
ConceptualConsistency
measure Description  Data covers the tile scheme provided for the county.

Resource distribution information

Distributor
distributor contact - distributor
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 Addresscoastal.info@noaa.gov
Linkage for online resource
URL:http://coast.noaa.gov
Standard ordering process
Ordering Instructions  The National Geophysical Data Center serves as the archive for this LIDAR data. NGDC should only be contacted for this data if it cannot be obtained from NOAA Coastal Services Center.
Distributor
distributor contact - distributor
individual Name Mike Sutherland
organisation Name  DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC > National Geophysical Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 303-497-6120
Fax 303-497-6513
Address
NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC E/GC1 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO, 80305-3328 Country USA
electronic Mail Addressmike.sutherland@noaa.gov
hoursOfService 7:30am-5:00pm Mountain
Standard ordering process
Ordering Instructions  The National Geophysical Data Center serves as the archive for this LIDAR dataset. NGDC should only be contacted for the data if it cannot be obtained from NOAA Coastal Services Center.
Format
Format name LAZ
Format version
Metadata data stamp:  2013-06-07
Resource Maintenance Information
date of next update:  2014-06-07
maintenance or update frequency:  annually
notes: This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata standard (version FGDC-STD-001-1998) using the 2013-01-04 version of the FGDC RSE to ISO 19115-2 for LiDAR transform.
notes: Translated from FGDC 2013-06-07T12:41:41.654-06:00
notes: Last Metadata Review Date: 2011-11-19
Metadata contact - author
individual Name Mike Sutherland
organisation Name  DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC > National Geophysical Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 303-497-6120
Fax 303-497-6513
Address
NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC E/GC1 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO, 80305-3328 Country USA
electronic Mail Addressmike.sutherland@noaa.gov
hoursOfService 7:30am-5:00pm Mountain
Metadata scope code  dataset
Metadata language  eng; USA
Metadata character set encoding:   utf8
Metadata standard for this record:  ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data
standard version:  ISO 19115-2:2009(E)
Metadata record identifier:  gov.noaa.csc.maps:2007_FDEM_Okaloosa_m562

Metadata record format is ISO19139-2 XML (MI_Metadata)