The LidarExplorer was originally created to enable identification of lidar projects having 3D visualization enabled (via Entwine) and having Amazon AWS cloud access. Now that all of the USGS Lidar products are available in the Cloud and 3D visualization is being enabled for all projects, these original requirements have been satisfied.Moving forward this application will bring together the necessary information for discovering and understanding the underlying 3DEP elevation data and provide avenues for efficiently processing the data within the cloud to avoid the need to download and process data locally. Users will be able to define their area of interest, select and filter products based on needs, create processing pipelines for transforming the data into derived products or results and execute the processing using within-cloud processing capabilities.

The goal of the USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) is to collect elevation data in the form of light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data over the conterminous United States, Hawaii, and the U.S. territories, with data acquired over an 8-year period. This dataset provides two realizations of the 3DEP point cloud data. The first resource is a public access organization provided in Entwine Point Tiles format, which a lossless, full-density, streamable octree based on LASzip (LAZ) encoding. The second resource is a Requester Pays of the original, Raw LAZ (Compressed LAS) 1.4 3DEP format, and more complete in coverage, as sources with incomplete or missing CRS, will not have an ETP tile generated. Resource names in both buckets correspond to the USGS project names.

Parkwide Quality Level 1 LiDAR was flown October 6-12 and 21-23, 2019. Acquisition occurred free of smoke, fog and cloud during a time frame absent of unusual flooding or inundation and during leaf off conditions when possible. However, due to its high elevation, there are a few patches of snow throughout the dataset which were classed accordingly and delineated by a snow polygon. This dataset encompasses an area covering approximately 803,364 acres of the western Sierra Nevada mountain range of Central California. Data validation was completed on May 21, 2021. Deliverables include LAS files, hydroflattened bare earth digital elevation models (DEMs), breaklines, building polygons, and project metadata files and reports available for download through the USGS LidarExplorer.

The maps in this data release show active landslide structures in three areas along the north flank of the Slumgullion landslide. After the entire active part of the landslide was mapped in 1992 and 1993 (Fleming and others, 1999), we remapped these three smaller areas at roughly decadal intervals. Our goal was to learn what structures might persist and how they might change as heterogeneous landslide material of variable thickness passed through the areas. Together with the original 1999 map, these maps provide snapshots of the deformational features at converging and diverging margins of the landslide at four periods in about a 30-year time span (1992-2023). During summer months in 2002, 2013, and 2023, we conducted 1:1000-scale mapping using a traditional technique of manually drawing lines on topographic base maps to represent the structures we observed in the field. There was generally a lapse of two or more years between acquisition of the topographic base data and the field mapping. Meters of landslide displacement during the lapse resulted in a mismatch between the topographic map and topography on the active landslide at the time of our fieldwork. When drawing features on the topographic base, we referenced fixed topographic features directly north of the active landslide’s strike-slip boundary to compensate for the mismatch. The data are recorded in Geographic Information System (GIS) files that contain the line styles used to portray and distinguish the different landslide structures. The files record the shapes and positions of the mapped landslide structures. An index of line styles used to portray mapped structures is shown in Figure 1. Topographic base maps used for the 2002, 2013, and 2023 structural maps were from 2000, 2011, and 2018, respectively. One-meter Digital Elevation Models (DEMs), contours, and shaded-relief maps from these three years are included in this data release. The 2000 DEM was created from 2 m contours of the landslide on July 31, 2000, as originally published in Messerich and Coe (2003). The 2011 DEM was created by the authors using a structure-from-motion photogrammetric method and 1:6000 scale aerial photos acquired on September 23, 2011. The 2018 DEM is lidar data collected between October 5, 2018 and September 24, 2019, with the original data available from the U.S. Geological Survey 3DEP Lidar Explorer (U.S. Geological Survey, 2024). The contour interval used for the 2000 DEM is 2 m. The contour interval used for the 2011 and 2018 DEM is 1 m. All GIS data are projected in the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) zone 13N cartesian coordinate system. Portable Document Format (PDF) files of the landslide structure maps of each area in 2002, 2013, and 2023, are also provided. Figure 1. Line and polygon types used for landslide structures and features mapped at the Slumgullion landslide. References Fleming, R.W., Baum, R.L., and Giardino, Marco, 1999, Map and description of the active part of the Slumgullion Landslide, Hinsdale County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Investigations Series Map I-2672 , scale 1:1,000, https://doi.org/10.3133/i2672 Messerich, J.A. and Coe, J.A., 2003, Topographic map of the active part of the Slumgullion landslide on July 31, 2000, Hinsdale County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-144, 7 p., 1:1,000 scale map. http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/ofr-03-144/ U.S. Geological Survey, 2024, 3DEP Lidar Explorer, data available at: http://prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html?prefix=StagedProducts/Elevation/1m/Projects/CO_Southwest_NRCS_2018_D18

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers–-Little Rock District (SWL) Civil Works program has a mission to maintain cohesion between physical and naturally developed environments. Evaluation of shoreline stability and adjacent development of a harbor along the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System at River Mile 202.6 is essential in establishing a baseline for potential impacts and future monitoring of the proposed harbor. A combination of multibeam sonar and high-resolution, low-altitude aerial light detection and ranging (lidar) data were used to provide data and analysis needed for as-built information and future monitoring of river shoreline and floodplain management and maintenance. In October 2021, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, completed high-resolution bathymetric (underwater elevation) and topographic surveys of the Arkansas River and a quarry at the proposed slack water harbor near Dardanelle, Arkansas. Bathymetric data were collected using a high-resolution multibeam echosounder mapping system (MBMS), which consists of a multibeam echosounder (MBES) and an inertial navigation system (INS) mounted on a marine survey vessel. Data were collected as the vessel traversed the river and quarry along overlapping survey lines distributed throughout the areas. Data collection software integrated and stored the depth data from the MBES and the horizontal and vertical position and attitude data of the vessel from the INS in real time. Data processing required computer software to extract bathymetry data from the raw data files and to summarize and map the information. Topographic data were collected as a lidar point cloud (LPC) using an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) with a YellowScan Vx20-100 lidar payload, which consists of the lidar scanner and an INS. The LPC data were collected as the UAS followed two perpendicular transects orientations (north-south and east-west) on separate flights. The LPC was corrected using a post-processed kinematic (PPK) solution with a Trimble R8s base station, and ground control points (GCPs) surveyed using Propeller AeroPoint smart targets which were PPK corrected to a nearby continuously operated reference station (CORS) tower. The LPC was attributed to the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) point classification standards. The LPC was colorized from a UAS-collected red-green-blue (RGB) orthoimage collected using a Ricoh GR camera. The processed bathymetric datasets and the UAS lidar dataset are provided in the ASPRS LAS format with associated metadata files in the zipped archive named SlackWaterHarbor_DardanelleAR_2021-10_data.zip. The LAS format is a standardized binary format for storing 3-dimensional point cloud data and point attributes along with header information and variable length records specific to the data. Data points are stored as a 3-dimensional data cloud as a series of x (longitude), y (latitude) and z (elevation) points. Please refer to http://www.asprs.org/Committee-General/LASer-LAS-File-Format-Exchange-Activities.html for additional information. Topographic data outside of the area collected by the UAS were extracted from aerial lidar data collected in 2014, publicly available from the USGS National Elevation Dataset (NED) at https://prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com/LidarExplorer/index.html#/. The two bathymetric datasets, the ground points from the UAS lidar data thinned to a 1.64-foot (0.5-meter) resolution, and the public lidar data were combined to create a multisource point cloud of the ground in the proposed harbor area and surroundings. The multisource point cloud dataset is provided in ESRI Shapefile format (ESRI, 2021) with an attribute table and metadata in the zipped archive named SlackWaterHarbor_DardanelleAR_2021-10_Multisource_data.zip. Attribute/column labels of this table are described in the "Entity and attribute" section of the associated metadata file. The multisource point cloud was used to generate an ESRI ASCII grid (ESRI, 2021) with metadata in the zipped archive named SlackWaterHarbor_DardanelleAR_2021-10_Multisource_grid.zip. References Cited: Environmental Systems Research Institute, 2021, ArcGIS: accessed May 20, 2021, at http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/.

Hurricane Maria induced about 70,000 landslides throughout Puerto Rico, USA (Hughes and others, 2019, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9BVMD74). Data in this project pertain to two areas situated in Puerto Rico’s rugged Cordillera Central range. Combined, these areas account for more than half of the hurricane-induced landslides. One of these areas encloses two neighboring municipalities, Lares Municipio, and Utuado Municipio, and the second area encloses Naranjito Municipio. These data include one-meter (1-m) resolution raster grids derived from post-hurricane light detection and ranging (lidar) digital elevation models (DEM) available at https://apps.nationalmap.gov/lidar-explorer/#/. The elevation data as well as slope and flow accumulation grids derived from them were the primary inputs for soil-depth models and slope-stability models. We used outputs from these models to map susceptibility to landslide initiation and evaluate future landslide impacts from storms like Hurricane Mari ...