Puget Sound Lidar Consortium

2000-2005 Lower Puget Sound Projects

Description: In 2000 the Puget Sound LiDAR Consortium set out to survey the topography of the Lower Puget Sound area.  Over the years the consortium has collected a vast amount of data for the initial target area.  Due to the geographic proximity between multi-year projects, all the datasets collected in the Puget Sound area from 2000 to 2005 were treated as one dataset.  They were all collected and processed according to the same set of standards and therefore are compatible with each other.  Raster data was merged at project boundaries in order to create a seamless dataset.  The raw point data was kept intact. The DEM grid cell size is six feet. The elevation units are in feet. The data is in Washington State Plane North Coordinate System FIPS 4601, in the NAD83(HARN)/NAVD88 datum. Back to Data by Projects

Reference Information:
This information is provided to be used in conjuction with the LiDAR datasets.

      
Data:
The raster data is available in either USGS quarter quads and as a Mosaic.  The elevation data in quarter quads is in the ArcInterchange .e00 format.  The hillshade images in quarter quad are in georeference TIFF format.  The raster elevation data is also available as a mosaic ArcGIS 9.x file Geodatabase.  The file Geodatabase includes raster datasets for the bare earth and the top surface. The point data is available in ASCII text format.  Point data is only available by tile.  A tile is a 1/25 section of a USGS quarter quad.  For details on the subdivisions of this data see the Index shapefiles in the Reference Information section above.

Raster Data by USGS Quarter Quad/Tiles	Individual Files	DEM Index Map	Topographic Image Index Map
Bare Earth - 6 ft raster resolution
Top Surface - 6 ft raster resolution
Raster Mosaic Data
File Geodatabase Mosaic
Contours**
5-ft Contours shapefile for Bainbridge Island

**  Prior to the PSLC, in 1999, there was a project over Bainbridge Island.  It was sponsored by Kitsap County PUD.  There are only Bare-Earth DEM's available for this project.  No point data.  In lieu of the point data we created 5-ft contours.


Bare Earth  ASCII Files
The bare earth ASCII data is available by individual project.  Adjacent areas have not been merged.  To search and download the data follow the steps below.  If you have further questions see the Frequently Asked Questions page.




All-Returns ASCII
The  All Returns ASCII data is available by individual project.  Adjacent areas have not been merged.  To download the data follow the steps below.  If you have further questions see the Frequently Asked Questions page.