Lidar Point Clouds

• Organizing point clouds

US sources, with directions

Download sites:

• USGS
  • https://viewer.nationalmap.gov/basic/   (National Map directions)
  • https://prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com/LidarExplorer/index.html#/  (experimental and subject to change)
  • Online viewing, 3D in broswer (may be slow)
    • https://registry.opendata.aws/usgs-lidar/
    • https://usgs.entwine.io/
• Open Topography:
  •  http://www.opentopography.org/  
  • OpenTopography Directions
• NOAA Coastal: https://coast.noaa.gov/dataviewer/?#/lidar/search/ allows reprojection before download (Directions)

The following countries have good, free lidar:

• Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Luxembourg,Norway, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom

• SRTM 15+
• SRTM30
• ETOPO1/2/5

Key Global Regional DEMs

NAIP and higher resolution download  (check both USGS sites; they might have different imagery)

• Earth Explorer directions and EarthExplorer download (suggested first choice, as it has a good projection and a selection of imagery dates)
  • NAIP will be leaf on, about 1 m resolution
  • High resolution might be leaf off, can be down to 6 inch resolution
• National Map directions and National Map Viewer downloads

WMS service

• USDA NAIP web service

• Landsat directions and EarthExplorer download
• Sentinel-2  directions and EarthExplorer download

• NASA Blue Marble next generation
• MODIS rapid response system for moderately sized areas
• NASA Worldview

• Landsat
• Sentinel-2

• Copernicus Global Land Cover:  https://lcviewer.vito.be/download (100 m)
• 300 m C3S Global Land Cover and Land Cover Maps - v2.0.7   22 classes
• GlobCover 2009 and 2006 (300 m)
• Global GLC2000 (1 km)
• Corine Land cover 2000 and 2006 for Europe (100 m and 250 m)

• TIGER overview     Download directions      Download site
• Microsoft Buildings

• Natural Earth
• GADM--Global Administrative Areas, with national, state/province, county/equivalent boundaries
• OpenStreetMap--not all countries available; insure you get shapefiles
• HydroSHEDS--15 sec resolution rivers and drainage basins
• Global roads: https://ciesin.columbia.edu/confluence/display/roads/Global+Roads+Data, http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/collection/groads (get shapefiles)