United States Interagency Elevation Inventory (USIEI)

Description

A nationwide listing of known publicly available high-accuracy topographic and bathymetric source elevation data for the United States and its territories. The inventory provides a single resource for information about all known completed and in-progress broad-area public domain elevation data. The information provided for each elevation dataset includes many attributes such as vertical accuracy, point spacing, and date of collection. A direct link to access the data or information about the contact organization is also available through the inventory. The United States Interagency Elevation Inventory raises awareness of and increases access to existing elevation data, thereby reducing data duplication efforts. It helps to identify data gaps and informs and encourages collaboration on future data collection efforts. The inventory displays data set boundaries and provides information about the elevation data but does not host the data itself. If available, links to access the data, metadata, and reports are included. The inventory viewer uses map services from multiple sources to provide information both topography and bathymetry. Map services from NOAA NCEI display the footprints and attribute information for the NOAA Hydrographic Surveys, Multibeam Bathymetry, and Trackline Surveys. A map service from USACE provides the USACE Hydrographic Surveys. Map services from NOAA Office for Coastal Management provide the bulk of the topographic and bathymetric lidar information. The NOAA NCEI and USACE service are updated regularly as new data in ingested. The data supporting the NOAA OCM hosted services are maintained by a partnership of federal agencies and supports the federal elevation theme. The agencies include NOAA, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Forest Service, the National Park Service and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This service is updated quarterly through an active process of data discovery and validation.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 Tool to view, search, and filter the U.S. Interagency Elevation Inventory https://coast.noaa.gov/inventory
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/48243
33 This document provides information about how to use the USIEI viewer. https://coast.noaa.gov/data/docs/digitalcoast/inventory/faq.pdf
0 NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page https://coast.noaa.gov
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/ocm/dmp/pdf/48243.pdf
0 NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page https://coast.noaa.gov
0 Link to the Digital Coast USIEI tool page. https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/inventory
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/find-data/idn/gcmd-keywords

Tags

  • topography
  • united states of america
  • office of coastal management
  • western pacific ocean
  • high-resolution
  • land surface
  • terrain elevation
  • national ocean service
  • northern mariana islands
  • ifsar
  • bathymetry
  • oceans
  • american samoa
  • continent
  • noaa
  • guam
  • caribbean sea
  • bathymetry/topography
  • north america
  • multibeam
  • topobathy
  • doc/noaa/nos/ocm
  • atlantic ocean
  • gulf of mexico
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • bathymetry/seafloor topography
  • ocean
  • hawaiian islands
  • us virgin islands
  • central pacific ocean
  • lidar
  • inventory
  • micronesia
  • spectral/engineering
  • puerto rico
  • north atlantic ocean
  • pacific ocean
  • seafloor topography
  • high-accuracy
  • great lakes
  • parentrecords

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