Skip to main content

Change your cookie settings

We cannot change your cookie settings at the moment because JavaScript is not running in your browser. To fix this, try:

  1. turning on JavaScript in your browser settings
  2. reloading this page
View cookies

Change your cookie settings

We cannot change your cookie settings at the moment because JavaScript is not running in your browser. To fix this, try:

  1. turning on JavaScript in your browser settings
  2. reloading this page
View cookies
  1. Home
  2. Search
  3. LIDAR Composite - Coverage and Extents for Scotland

LIDAR Composite - Coverage and Extents for Scotland

Summary

This dataset shows each tile available and the extent of data in each individual tile that went into the merging process to create the LIDAR Composite DSM & DTM. The data is supplied as a shapefile. This metadata record is for Approval for Access product AfA458. Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) is an airborne mapping technique, which uses a laser to measure the distance between the aircraft and the ground. Up to 300,000 measurements per second are made of the ground, allowing highly detailed terrain models to be generated at spatial resolutions of between 25cm and 2 metres. The Environment Agency’s LIDAR data archive contains digital elevation data derived from surveys carried out by the Environment Agency's specialist remote sensing team. This dataset is derived from a combination of our full dataset which has been merged and re-sampled to give the best possible coverage. Data is available at 2m, 1m, 50cm, and 25cm resolution. The dataset can be supplied as a Digital Surface Model produced from the signal returned to the LIDAR (which includes heights of objects, such as vehicles, buildings and vegetation, as well as the terrain surface) or as a Digital Terrain Model produced by removing objects from the Digital Surface Model. The dataset can be presented as an ESRI ASCII Raster which contains height values, or as a georeferenced JPEG which is an image showing what LIDAR looks like when loaded into specialist software.

Categories

Use limitation statement

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Attribution statement

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2016. All rights reserved.

Technical information

Update frequency

asNeeded

Lineage

This dataset shows the extent of data in each individual tile that went into the merging process to create the LIDAR Composite DSM & DTM.

Spatial information

Geographic extent

  • Latitude from: 54.6 to 61.5
  • Longitude from: -7.7 to -0.5
Metadata information

Language

English

Metadata identifier

c66635ec-aa21-4c13-8252-57df988e627b


Published by

Environment Agency

Contact publisher

Defra Data Services Forum

Dataset reference dates

Creation date

13 July 2016

Revision date

N/A

Publication date

N/A

Period

  • From: 01 January 1998
  • To: 12 December 2015

Search

Data and Supporting Information
Data services and download by area of interestLinkAction
Full downloads and supporting documentationFormatAction
LIDAR_Composite_-_Coverage_and_Extents_for_Scotland.zipZIPDownload