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    <idinfo>
        <datsetid> gov.noaa.csc.maps:2005_PostKatrina_Topobathy_m31 </datsetid>
        <citation>
            <citeinfo>
                <origin> DOC/NOAA/NOS/CSC/CRS &gt; Coastal Remote Sensing Program, Coastal Services Center, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce </origin>
                <pubdate> 20061016 </pubdate>
                <title> USACE 2005 Post-hurricane Katrina Topo/Bathy project </title>
            </citeinfo>
        </citation>
        <descript>
            <abstract> These data were collected by the Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise using the CHARTS system. The data includes hydrographic and topographic data. </abstract>
            <purpose> The data were collected to depict the post-Hurricane Katrina elevations above and below water along the immediate coastal zone and to provide height information required for processing hyperspectral imagery. </purpose>
        </descript>
        <timeperd>
            <timeinfo>
                <rngdates>
                    <begdate> 20051012 </begdate>
                    <enddate> 20051211 </enddate>
                </rngdates>
            </timeinfo>
            <current> Ground Condition </current>
        </timeperd>
        <status>
            <progress> Complete </progress>
            <update> As needed </update>
        </status>
        <spdom>
            <bounding>
                <westbc> -90.371622 </westbc>
                <eastbc> -84.934814 </eastbc>
                <northbc> 30.857725 </northbc>
                <southbc> 29.198248 </southbc>
            </bounding>
        </spdom>
        <keywords>
            <theme>
                <themekt> None </themekt>
                <themekey> Lidar </themekey>
                <themekey> Bathymetry </themekey>
                <themekey> Topography </themekey>
            </theme>
            <place>
                <placekt> None </placekt>
                <placekey> Gulf Coast </placekey>
                <placekey> Biloxi </placekey>
                <placekey> Louisiana </placekey>
                <placekey> Gulf Breeze </placekey>
                <placekey> Destin </placekey>
            </place>
            <temporal>
                <tempkt> None </tempkt>
                <tempkey> November 2005 </tempkey>
                <tempkey> Post-Hurricane Katrina </tempkey>
            </temporal>
        </keywords>
        <accconst> none </accconst>
        <useconst> These data depict the heights at the time of the survey and are only accurate for that time. Any conclusions drawn from analysis of this information are not the responsibility of NOAA, the Coastal Services Center, or JALBTCX. This data has not been tested by NOAA and should not be considered suitable for navigational use. </useconst>
        <ptcontac>
            <cntinfo>
                <cntorgp>
                    <cntorg> Coastal Remote Sensing Program </cntorg>
                </cntorgp>
                <cntpos> TCM Project Scientist </cntpos>
                <cntaddr>
                    <addrtype> mailing and physical address </addrtype>
                    <address>
            2234 South Hobson Avenue
          </address>
                    <city> Charleston </city>
                    <state> South Carolina </state>
                    <postal> 29405 </postal>
                    <country> United States </country>
                </cntaddr>
                <cntvoice> (843) 740-1200 </cntvoice>
                <cntemail> csc@csc.noaa.gov </cntemail>
            </cntinfo>
        </ptcontac>
        <datacred> Acknowledgement of the Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Center of Expertise (JALBTCX) would be appreciated in any publications or derived products. </datacred>
    </idinfo>
    <dataqual>
        <attracc>
            <attraccr> Data are not attributed. </attraccr>
            <qattracc>
                <attraccv> N/A </attraccv>
                <attracce> These data are not attributed. </attracce>
            </qattracc>
        </attracc>
        <logic> The data provided in this file were tested against ground truth data. At these locations the lidar data matched within 0.20 meters, and different flight line data agreed within 0.20 meters. </logic>
        <complete> These data covered the required survey area with minimal gaps in data coverage. The data postings are very consistent with postings at about 1.3m density. </complete>
        <posacc>
            <horizpa>
                <horizpar> The data positions were obtained using post processed KGPS methods. The horizontal accuracy of the data is better than +/- 0.75m. </horizpar>
                <qhorizpa>
                    <horizpav> 0.75 </horizpav>
                    <horizpae> 1 Sigma </horizpae>
                </qhorizpa>
            </horizpa>
            <vertacc>
                <vertaccr> The data positions were obtained using post processed KGPS methods. The vertical accuracy of the data is better than +/- 0.20m. </vertaccr>
                <qvertpa>
                    <vertaccv> 0.20 </vertaccv>
                    <vertacce> 1 Sigma </vertacce>
                </qvertpa>
            </vertacc>
        </posacc>
        <lineage>
            <srcinfo>
                <srccite>
                    <citeinfo>
                        <origin> DOD/USARMY/USACE/JALBTCX &gt; Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, U. S. Department of Defense </origin>
                        <pubdate> Unpublished material </pubdate>
                        <pubtime> Unknown </pubtime>
                        <title> Post-Hurricane Katrina Coastal Survey </title>
                        <geoform> globe </geoform>
                    </citeinfo>
                </srccite>
                <typesrc> disc </typesrc>
                <srctime>
                    <timeinfo>
                        <rngdates>
                            <begdate> 20051111 </begdate>
                            <enddate> 20051122 </enddate>
                        </rngdates>
                    </timeinfo>
                    <srccurr> Ground Condition </srccurr>
                </srctime>
                <srccitea> 05045 and 05046 </srccitea>
                <srccontr> This is an xyz dataset collected and provided by CESAM-OP-J, JALBTCX. </srccontr>
            </srcinfo>
            <procstep>
                <procdesc> These data were collected using the CHARTS surveys system. It is owned by the Naval Oceanographic Office and operated through contract. The system collects topographic lidar data at 20kHz and hydrographic data at 3kHz. The system also collects RGB imagery at 1Hz. A CASI-1500 hyperspectral line scanner is integrated with the system as well. Aircraft position, velocity and acceleration information are collected through a combination of Novatel and POS A/V equipment. Raw
                    data are collected and transferred to the office for downloading and processing in SHOALS GCS software. GPS data are processed using POSPac software and the results are combined with the lidar data to produce 3-D positions for each lidar shot. These data are edited using Fledermaus software where anomalous data are removed from the dataset. The edited data are unloaded from SHOALS GCS, converted from ellipsoid to orthometric heights, based on the GEOID03 model, and split into
                    greographic tiles covering approximately 5km each. </procdesc>
                <procdate> 20060210 </procdate>
            </procstep>
            <procstep>
                <procdesc> The NOAA Coastal Services Center (CSC) received files in ascii format. The files contained lidar intensity and elevation measurements. CSC performed the following processing on the data to make it available within the Lidar Data Retrieval Tool (LDART): 1. Each hydro/topo last return ascii file was converted to las files. Default values for which there is no corresponding input were assigned as follows for each las elevation data record: intensity = 0, retn = 1, nret =
                    1, class = 0 2. The las files were sorted by latitude and the las header fields were updated. </procdesc>
                <procdate> 20060421 </procdate>
                <proccont>
                    <cntinfo>
                        <cntorgp>
                            <cntorg> Coastal Remote Sensing Program </cntorg>
                        </cntorgp>
                        <cntpos> TCM Project Scientist </cntpos>
                        <cntaddr>
                            <addrtype> mailing and physical address </addrtype>
                            <address>
                2234 South Hobson Avenue
              </address>
                            <city> Charleston </city>
                            <state> South Carolina </state>
                            <postal> 29405 </postal>
                            <country> United States </country>
                        </cntaddr>
                        <cntvoice> (843) 740-1200 </cntvoice>
                        <cntemail> csc@csc.noaa.gov </cntemail>
                    </cntinfo>
                </proccont>
            </procstep>
            <procstep>
                <procdesc> The NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) received Lidar data files on external harddrive. The disk contains LiDAR data from the NOAA Coastal Services Center. The data are currently being served via Digital Coastl at http://www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/. The data can be used to re-populate the system. The data are provided on this disk in LAS format. LAS format is an industry standard for serving LiDAR data. The data are exclusively in geographic coordinates,
                    however, the datums used vary. Most are NAD 83, however some are in ITRF. Vertical systems include both ellipsoid (ITRF and NAD 83) and NAVD 88. For NAVD 88 values, Geiod 03 is primarily used; however, data received in NAVD 88 prior to 2003 was processed using Geoid 99. </procdesc>
                <procdate> 20060103 </procdate>
                <proccont>
                    <cntinfo>
                        <cntorgp>
                            <cntorg> DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC &gt; National Geophysical Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce </cntorg>
                            <cntper> Pamela Grothe </cntper>
                        </cntorgp>
                        <cntaddr>
                            <addrtype> Mailing and Physical Address </addrtype>
                            <address>
                NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC E/GC1 325 Broadway
              </address>
                            <city> Boulder </city>
                            <state> CO </state>
                            <postal> 80305-3328 </postal>
                            <country> USA </country>
                        </cntaddr>
                        <cntvoice> (303) 497-6120 </cntvoice>
                        <cnttdd> (303) 497-6958 </cnttdd>
                        <cntfax> (303) 497-6513 </cntfax>
                        <cntemail> pamela.grothe@noaa.gov </cntemail>
                        <hours> 7:30-5:00 Mountain </hours>
                        <cntinst> Contact Data Center </cntinst>
                    </cntinfo>
                </proccont>
            </procstep>
        </lineage>
        <cloud> Unknown </cloud>
    </dataqual>
    <spdoinfo>
        <direct> Point </direct>
    </spdoinfo>
    <spref>
        <horizsys>
            <geograph>
                <latres> 8.72510514918963e-10 </latres>
                <longres> 7.5382292863717e-10 </longres>
                <geogunit> Decimal degrees </geogunit>
            </geograph>
            <geodetic>
                <horizdn> North American Datum of 1983 </horizdn>
                <ellips> Geodetic Reference System 80 </ellips>
                <semiaxis> 6378137 </semiaxis>
                <denflat> 298.257 </denflat>
            </geodetic>
        </horizsys>
        <vertdef>
            <altsys>
                <altdatum> North American Vertical Datum of 1988 </altdatum>
                <altres> 0.01 </altres>
                <altunits> meters </altunits>
                <altenc> Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates </altenc>
            </altsys>
        </vertdef>
    </spref>
    <distinfo>
        <distrib>
            <cntinfo>
                <cntorgp>
                    <cntorg> NOAA Coastal Services Center </cntorg>
                </cntorgp>
                <cntpos> Coastal Remote Sensing Program Manager </cntpos>
                <cntaddr>
                    <addrtype> mailing and physical address </addrtype>
                    <address>
            2234 South Hobson Avenue
          </address>
                    <city> Charleston </city>
                    <state> SC </state>
                    <postal> 29405-2413 </postal>
                </cntaddr>
                <cntvoice> none </cntvoice>
                <cntemail> csc@csc.noaa.gov </cntemail>
            </cntinfo>
        </distrib>
        <distliab> Any conclusions drawn from analysis of this information are not the responsibility of NOAA or the Coastal Services Center. </distliab>
        <custom> This data can be obtained on-line at the following URL: http://csc-s-maps-q.csc.noaa.gov/dataviewer/viewer.html. The data set is dynamically generated based on user-specified parameters. </custom>
    </distinfo>
    <distinfo>
        <distrib>
            <cntinfo>
                <cntorgp>
                    <cntorg> DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC &gt; National Geophysical Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce </cntorg>
                    <cntper> Pamela Grothe </cntper>
                </cntorgp>
                <cntaddr>
                    <addrtype> Mailing and Physical Address </addrtype>
                    <address>
            NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC E/GC1 325 Broadway
          </address>
                    <city> Boulder </city>
                    <state> CO </state>
                    <postal> 80305-3328 </postal>
                    <country> USA </country>
                </cntaddr>
                <cntvoice> (303) 497-6120 </cntvoice>
                <cnttdd> (303) 497-6958 </cnttdd>
                <cntfax> (303) 497-6513 </cntfax>
                <cntemail> pamela.grothe@noaa.gov </cntemail>
                <hours> 7:30-5:00 Mountain </hours>
                <cntinst> Contact Data Center </cntinst>
            </cntinfo>
        </distrib>
        <distliab> Disclaimer While every effort has been made to ensure that these data are accurate and reliable within the limits of the current state of the art, NOAA cannot assume liability for any damages caused by any errors or omissions in the data, nor as a result of the failure of the data to function on a particular system. NOAA makes no warranty, expressed or implied, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty. </distliab>
        <custom> The National Geophysical Data Center serves as the archive for this LIDAR data. NGDC should only be contacted for this data if it cannot be obtained from NOAA Coastal Services Center. </custom>
    </distinfo>
    <metainfo>
        <metd>20111119</metd>
        <metrd>20111119</metrd>
        <metfrd>20121119</metfrd>
        <metc>
            <cntinfo>
                <cntorgp>
                    <cntorg> NOAA Coastal Services Center </cntorg>
                    <cntper> Keil Schmid </cntper>
                </cntorgp>
                <cntpos> Metadata Specialist </cntpos>
                <cntaddr>
                    <addrtype> mailing and physical address </addrtype>
                    <address>
            2234 South Hobson Avenue
          </address>
                    <city> Charleston </city>
                    <state> SC </state>
                    <postal> 29405-2413 </postal>
                </cntaddr>
                <cntvoice> none </cntvoice>
                <cntemail> metadata@csc.noaa.gov </cntemail>
            </cntinfo>
        </metc>
        <metstdn> FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata </metstdn>
        <metstdv> FGDC-STD-001-1998 </metstdv>
    </metainfo>






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