New Zealand Elevation
Provided by: Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand , part of the AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program
Provided by: Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand , part of the AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program
New Zealand Elevation
Provided by: Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand , part of the AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program
Provided by: Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand , part of the AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program
This product is part of the AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program and contains data sets that are publicly available for anyone to access and use. No subscription is required. Unless specifically stated in the applicable data set documentation, data sets available through the AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program are not provided and maintained by AWS.
Description
The New Zealand Elevation dataset consists of New Zealand's publicly owned digital elevation models and digital surface models, which are freely available to use under an open licence. The dataset contains 1m resolution grids derived from LiDAR data. Point clouds are not included in the initial release.
All of the elevation files are Cloud Optimised GeoTIFFs using LERC compression for the main grid and LERC compression with lower max_z_error for the overviews. These elevation files are accompanied by STAC metadata . The elevation data is organised by region and survey.
License
Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand does not own the copyright for all of the elevation data that is available in this bucket. Licensors are contained in the STAC Collection file accompanying each elevation data survey. Licensed for re-use under "CC-BY-4.0 ".
Documentation
How to cite
New Zealand Elevation was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/nz-elevation .
Licensed by (insert the licensor) for re-use under CC-BY-4.0 .
Update frequency
New elevation data will regularly be added, as part of being published to the LINZ Data Service and LINZ Basemaps.
Support information
Managed by: Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand
Contact: elevation@linz.govt.nz
General AWS Data Exchange support
Resources on AWS
Description
New Zealand Elevation with accompanying metadata
Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::nz-elevationAWS Region
ap-southeast-2AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)
aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://nz-elevation/Usage examples
Publications
- Dairy farming exposure and impacts from coastal flooding and sea level rise in Aotearoa-New Zealand by Heather Craig, Alec Wild and Ryan Paulik
- Stress Detection in New Zealand Kauri Canopies with WorldView-2 Satellite and LiDAR Data by Jane J. Meiforth, Henning Buddenbaum, Joachim Hill, James D. Shepherd and John R. Dymond
- Underpinning Terroir with Data: Integrating Vineyard Performance Metrics with Soil and Climate Data to Better Understand Within-Region Variation in Marlborough, New Zealand by R. G. V. Bramley, J. Ouzman, A. P. Sturman, G. J. Grealish, C. E. M. Ratcliff and M. C. T. Trought