2007 Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) Lidar Project: Coastal Jefferson County
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 185 square miles in the coastal (southern) part of Jefferson County, Florida from July 18 - 20, 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 Jefferson County
publication Date
2008-05-05
presentationForm
imageDigital
cited responsible party
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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
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
other Citation Details
Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Thu Aug 24 09:59:41 UTC 2017
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 Coastal Jefferson 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
-84.084223
eastBoundLongitude
-83.829313
northBoundLatitude
30.374197
southBoundLatitude
30.081871
Temporal Extent
2007-07-18
2007-07-20
point of contact
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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
Description Registry that accesses the EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset, which is a structured dataset of Coordinate Reference Systems
and Coordinate Transformations.
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 Jefferson 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
2007-07-18
2007-07-20
AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy
name Of Measure Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
evaluation Method Description
Lidar source compiled to meet 1 m 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 (0.18 m) Fundamental Vertical Accuracy (FVA) and 1.19 feet (0.36 m) 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 Jefferson County, Florida satisfies the
criteria: Countywide lidar dataset tested 0.48 ft (0.15 m) FVA at 95% confidence level in open terrain, based on open terrain
RMSEz (0.24 ft) x 1.9600. Countywide lidar dataset tested 0.51 ft (0.16 m) CVA at 95% confidence level in all land cover categories
combined, based on consolidated RMSEz (0.26 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. Small intensity anomalies corresponding to false
depressions in the ground data were found in 0.43 sq. miles of the data. While these intensity anomalies and false depressions
impacted a small geographic extent of the data, do not render the data unusable and are within the acceptable percentage of
vertical errors allowed by the project specifications, these anomalies could still visually be seen in the data. To effectively
remove the false depressions from the bare-earth data, ground points representing the false depression were reclassified from
class 2 to class 7 and good ground points were reclassified from class 1 to class 2 when present in overlap data.
ConceptualConsistency
measure Description
Data covers the tile scheme provided for the county.
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
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
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distributor
individual Name Mike Sutherland
organisation Name
DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers of Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 303-497-6120
Fax 303-497-6513
Address
325 Broadway E/GC1, Boulder, CO, 80305-3328
Country USA
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.
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 2013-06-07T12:41:35.418-06:00
notes: Last Metadata Review Date: 2011-11-19
Metadata contact
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author
individual Name Mike Sutherland
organisation Name
DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers of Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 303-497-6120
Fax 303-497-6513
Address
325 Broadway E/GC1, Boulder, CO, 80305-3328
Country USA