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2021-2023 NOAA NGS Topobathy Lidar: French Frigate Shoals and Nihoa, Hawaii

Published by National Geodetic Survey | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: January 23, 2026 | Last Modified: 2024-10-01T00:00:00.000+00:00
These data were collected by Woolpert using a Leica Hawkeye4X system. Data for Nihoa and French Frigate Shoals were acquired from February 7, 2021 through July 27, 2023. The data includes topobathy data in an LAS 1.4 format file classified as unclassified (1), ground (2), low noise (7), topo water surface (9), high noise (18), bathymetric point (40), bathymetric water surface (41), synthetic derived water surface (42), submerged object (43), International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) S-57 object (44), submerged aquatic vegetation (64), and bathymetric bottom temporal changes (65) in accordance with the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) classification standards. This data set may also include lidar intensity values and encoded RGB image values.

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