Three-dimensional point cloud data collected with a scanning total station on the western shoreline of the Shinnecock Nation Tribal Lands, Suffolk County, New York, 2022

Description

This data release contains about 60 million point cloud data points collected during 27 scans of a section of the western shoreline of the Shinnecock Peninsula in Suffolk County, New York. Data were collected during July and October of 2022. Data are provided as .las files with points classified as either bare earth (GROUND_SN_BRIC_BL_2022_v03.0 (2).las), vegetation (VEGETATION_SN_BRIC_BL_2022_v03.0.las) or unclassified (DEFAULT_SN_BRIC_BL_2022_v03.0.las). Users are encouraged to read the metadata and Noll and others (2024) to understand how the data were collected, registered, and classified.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9OG0AAO
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.65774aa6d34e952b227460e4.xml

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  • environment
  • new-york
  • topography
  • coastal-processes
  • oceans
  • long-island
  • elevation
  • geospatial-datasets
  • erosion
  • usgs-65774aa6d34e952b227460e4
  • suffolk-county

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