LiDAR collection in August 2015 over the East River Watershed, Colorado, USA

Airborne LiDAR data were acquired over the East River Watershed on June 8, 2015 to August 10, 2015. The area covered was approximately 4933 square kilometers with an average point density of 10-12 points per square meter to comply with USGS's QL1 standard. Additional products include the LiDAR point cloud and derived products (including the digital elevation map, top-of-canopy elevation). The attached LIDAR acquisition report accompanies the delivered LiDAR data and documents contract specifications, data acquisition procedures, acquisition parameters (e.g., flight line trajectories, coverage maps), processing methods, and analysis of the final dataset including LiDAR accuracy and density. The metadata can be accessed by using GIS software (QGIS, ArcGIS) or remote sensing software (ENVI). The LiDAR data collection was funded by the Watershed Function SFA project and IDEAS-Watersheds projects supported by U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research under award no. DE-AC02-05CH11231.