LiDAR and 3″-4″ ortho files of Contra Costa County available!

I went to the Contra Costa Countywide GIS meeting yesterday and found out about these countywide files that were recently posted to the Casil FTP site in the coco-county folder. Infrared imagery is expected to be posted by January 2009. The LiDAR was flown for flood control analysis, but it is publicly available for any other research. The county GIS deptartment asks that you contact them to share how you work with the data. Also, I came across this LiDAR resources site with links to other data and helpful info.

Comments

[Maggi]

Thanks Ellen! I couldn't find this when I checked.

[Kyle Holland]

I cannot find a telephone number or contact person for this project on the county Web site. The county GIS department does not return my emails. Do you have a contact name and number for this project?

Also, county-wide interpolation of the lidar density, points per square meter, can be downloaded here:

http://nature.berkeley.edu/~kholland/LidarDensity500.tif

-Kyle