2017 NOAA/MCP Topobathy Lidar: Blue Hill Bay, ME - SHOALS Sensor

Description

Fugro was contracted in July 2017 by the State of Maine Department of Marine Resources (SMDMR), Maine Coastal Program (MCP), and the NOAA Office for Coastal Management (OCM) to conduct an Airborne LiDAR Bathymetry (ALB) survey in the vicinity of Blue Hill Bay in Maine, and to deliver fully processed and verified hydrographic survey data.The ALB survey was conducted with the SHOALS-1000T and Riegl VQ-820-G lidar systems in a concurrent acquisition. The SHOALS system, with a high power laser, provided the better probability for deep sounding detections at a reduced point density (about 0.15 pts/m2); whilst the VQ-820-Q provided high density coverage (up to 8.5 pts/m2) but at reduced depth detection. This metadata record describes the topographic and bathymetric LiDAR elevations generated from data collected with the SHOALS-1000T LiDAR system along Blue Hill Bay on the coastline of Maine. Data were collected by Fugro for NOAA OCM. The SHOALS system is a bathymetric LiDAR sensor for use in coastal mapping and charting activities because the laser's ability to penetrate the water column and detect targets up to 2.5 times the Secchi disk depth. Survey coverage was based on a delimiting polygon provided by NOAA OCM, which envelopes the area between the 0 m contour (NAVD88) down to approximated -10 meters. An additional horizontal buffer of 100 meters from the 0 m contour expanded the survey area coverage to include the adjacent emerged topography. SHOALS data have been processed on Optech SHOALS-GCS and QPS Fledermaus software packages for: auto-processing; calibration, cleaning and editing, validation, basic classification, and exported to LAS format. 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. A topographic and bathymetric reflectance raster are also available. These data are available for download at the link provided in the URL section of this metadata record. A link to custom download the concurrently collected topographic and bathymetric data (collected with the Riegl VQ-820-G lidar system) is provided in the URL section of this metadata record.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/52596
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/ocm/dmp/pdf/52596.pdf
0 Information on the NOAA Office for Coastal Management (OCM) https://coast.noaa.gov/
0 Link to custom download the concurrently collected topographic and bathymetric data (collected with the RIEGL VQ-820-G lidar system). https://coast.noaa.gov/dataviewer/#/lidar/search/where:ID=8525
33 Link to data set report. https://noaa-nos-coastal-lidar-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/laz/geoid12b/8526/supplemental/me2017_blue_hill_bay_shoals_m8526_report.pdf
57 Link to the bathymetric and topographic reflectance rasters. https://noaa-nos-coastal-lidar-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/laz/geoid12b/8526/supplemental/shoals_reflectance.zip
0 NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page https://coast.noaa.gov
0 NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page https://coast.noaa.gov
0 Create custom data files by choosing data area, product type, map projection, file format, datum, etc. A new metadata will be produced to reflect your request using this record as a base. https://coast.noaa.gov/dataviewer/#/lidar/search/where:ID=8526
0 The Data Access Viewer (DAV) allows a user to search for and download elevation, imagery, and land cover data for the coastal U.S. and its territories. The data, hosted by the NOAA Office for Coastal Management, can be customized and requested for free download through a checkout interface. An email provides a link to the customized data, while the original data set is available through a link within the viewer. https://coast.noaa.gov/dataviewer/
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2024. GCMD Keywords, Version 19. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
21 Bulk download of data files in LAZ format, geographic coordinates, orthometric heights. Note that the vertical datum (hence elevations) of the files here are different than described in this document. https://noaa-nos-coastal-lidar-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/laz/geoid12b/8526/index.html

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  • vertical location
  • topography
  • united states of america
  • office of coastal management
  • land surface
  • terrain elevation
  • national ocean service
  • oceans
  • continent
  • noaa
  • north america
  • airplane
  • doc/noaa/nos/ocm
  • maine
  • coastal elevation
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • erosion
  • earth science
  • bathymetry/seafloor topography
  • light detection and ranging
  • sea floor
  • lidar
  • national oceanic and atmospheric administration
  • coastal processes
  • beach
  • shoals
  • seafloor topography
  • blue hill bay
  • u.s. east coast
  • point data

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