2019 Peace-Athabasca Delta LiDAR Data

High-resolution ground terrain elevational data are key to assessing habitat conditions, surface water connectivity and environmental change in the Peace-Athabasca Delta (PAD), Northern Alberta. LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) is a remote sensing technology that has recently become more common in geospatial related projects and is currently one of the best methods for surveying large areas to obtain surface elevations. As part of the Oil Sands Monitoring (OSM) Program, aerial LiDAR surveys were conducted over approximately 3500 km2 of the PAD at the end of summer 2019 to cover spatial data gaps. The LiDAR point cloud elevational data are offered as 1 km2 tiles of classified (unclassified, ground, low point noise, water, high noise) referenced to UTM NAD83 (CSRS) Zone 12 horizontal and CGVD2013 (Epoch 2010) vertical reference systems, with a RMSE of approximately 0.10 m. Following the Government of Canada Open Data initiative, this original elevational data set is available to the public.

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Metadata Record Information

File Identifier
1e2c6c43-38c9-4982-985a-e3f29906a127 XML
Date Stamp
2022-09-20T14:42:43
Metadata language

eng; CAN
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy Level
Dataset
Point of contact
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Science and Technology Branch / Water Science and Technology Directorate / Watershed Hydrology and Ecology Research Division
 

Data identification

Date (Publication)
2022-08-10
Date (Creation)
2019-05-10
Status
Completed
Metadata language

eng; CAN
Character set
utf8
Topic category
  • Elevation
  • Geoscientific information
Maintenance and Update Frequency
As needed
Spatial representation type
Text, table
Principal investigator
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Science and Technology Branch / Water Science and Technology Directorate / Watershed Hydrology and Ecology Research Division

Keywords

Place

  • Peace-Athabasca Delta
Theme

  • LiDAR, Elevation data

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus

  • Land cover

  • Remote sensing

Business Functions

  • Expand Scientific Knowledge / Develop New Methodologies for Water Quantity Products and Services

  • Provide Water Quantity Information Products and Services
 
Use Limitation

Open Government Licence - Canada ( http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada )

Access Constraints
License
Use Constraints
License
Begin Date
2019-01-01
End Date
2019-12-31

Extent

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Ref. system Reference Systems

Reference system identifier
http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:3978 / unknown
 

Distribution

Distribution Formats

Distribution format
  • CSV ( unkown )

 
Distributor
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Science and Technology Branch / Water Science and Technology Directorate / Watershed Hydrology and Ecology Research Division
 
 

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Keywords

LiDAR, Elevation data Peace-Athabasca Delta
Business Functions
Expand Scientific Knowledge / Develop New Methodologies for Water Quantity Products and Services Provide Water Quantity Information Products and Services
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus
Land cover Remote sensing

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