Scottish Public Sector LiDAR Dataset
Provided by: Joint Nature Conservation Committee , part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative
Provided by: Joint Nature Conservation Committee , part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative
Scottish Public Sector LiDAR Dataset
Provided by: Joint Nature Conservation Committee , part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative
Provided by: Joint Nature Conservation Committee , part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative
This product is part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative 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 Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative are not provided and maintained by AWS.
Description
This dataset is Lidar data that has been collected by the Scottish public sector and made available under the Open Government Licence. The data are available as point cloud (LAS format or in LAZ compressed format), along with the derived Digital Terrain Model (DTM) and Digital Surface Model (DSM) products as Cloud optimized GeoTIFFs (COG) or standard GeoTIFF. The dataset contains multiple subsets of data which were each commissioned and flown in response to different organisational requirements. The details of each can be found at https://remotesensingdata.gov.scot/data#/list
License
All data is made available under the Open Government Licence v3 unless otherwise stated. Currently the exception is only the phase 2 - LAZ files which are under non-commercial government license .
Documentation
How to cite
Scottish Public Sector LiDAR Dataset was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/scottish-lidar .
Update frequency
New datasets have historically been added every 2-3 years but there is no guarantee that this will continue.
Support information
Managed by: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
Contact: https://remotesensingdata.gov.scot/feedback or email Scottish Government on gi-sat@gov.scot
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Resources on AWS
Description
LiDAR data (DSM, DTM and Laz)
Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::srsp-open-dataAWS Region
eu-west-2AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)
aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://srsp-open-data/Usage examples
Tutorials
- LiDAR Tutorial using QGIS by Michal Michalski
- LiDAR Tutorial using R by Michal Michalski
Publications
- Large area archaeological survey in the age of big data and machine learning by Dave Cowley, George Geddes, Łukasz Banaszek, Kirsty Millican and Iris Kramer
- Making LiGHT Work of Large Area Survey? Developing Approaches to Rapid Archaeological Mapping and the Creation of Systematic National-scaled Heritage Data by Dave Cowley, Łukasz Banaszek, George Geddes, Angela Gannon, Mike Middleton and Kirsty Millican
- New light on medieval settlement in lowland Scotland by Dave Cowley and Piers Dixon
- Towards National Archaeological Mapping. Assessing Source Data and Methodology - A Case Study from Scotland by Łukasz Banaszek, Dave Cowley and Mike Middleton
Tools & Applications