DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5069/G91N7Z2X
OT Collection ID: OT.082012.26913.1
Dataset Name: Medicine Bow NF, WY: Forest Ecosystem Impacts by Mountain Pine Beetle
Short Name: WY11_Biederman
Collection Platform: Airborne LiDAR

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Dataset Overview: NCALM Seed. PI: Joel Biederman, University of Arizona. The survey area is a 35 square kilometer polygon located 54 km southwest of Laramie, Wyoming. Data were collected to investigate the application of lidar data to models for water, energy and biogeochemical cycling in mountain ecosystems impacted by the Mountain Pine Beetle.

Dataset Acknowledgement: LiDAR data acquisition and processing completed by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM - http://www.ncalm.org). NCALM funding provided by NSF's Division of Earth Sciences, Instrumentation and Facilities Program. EAR-1043051. http://dx.doi.org/10.5069/G91N7Z2X

Dataset Keywords: 

Survey Date: 08/26/2011

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Data Provider and Roles:
	1. National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping
	Role: Collector
	Url: http://www.ncalm.cive.uh.edu/

	2. National Science Foundation
	Role: Funder
	Url: http://nsf.gov/


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Total LiDAR Points: 316,486,651 pts

Area: 35.0 km^2

Shot Density: 9.04 pts/m^2

Coordinates System: 
	Horizontal: UTM z13 N NAD83 (CORS96) [EPSG: 26913]
	Vertical: NAVD88 (GEOID09) [EPSG: 5703]

Survey Report: http://opentopo.sdsc.edu/metadata/NCALM/NCALM_Metadata_2011_S001_238_Biderman.pdf

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Download and Access Products: 
	1. Point Cloud Data
		opentopoID: OTLAS.082012.26913.1
		Download and Processing: http://opentopo.sdsc.edu/gridsphere/gridsphere?gs_action=lidarDataset&cid=geonlidarframeportlet&opentopoID=OTLAS.082012.26913.1


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Dataset Extent in KMZ format: http://opentopo.sdsc.edu/lidarkmls/point_cloud/WY11_Biderman_bounds.kmz

Dataset Spatial Bounds:
	North: 41.0802°
	South: 41.0390°
	East: -106.0948°
	West: -106.1905°