LIDAR the Pines with NJ 2007 Orthoimagery

© 2023 Boyd Ostroff

Data Source

This map is locally hosted at boydsmaps.com

Link to this metadata:
boydsmaps.com/mapinfo/lidar2007.html

Link to this map:
boydsmaps.com/#15.00/39.649230/-74.642864/lidar2007/0.00/0.00

Originally published: January 23, 2015

Most recent update: February 12, 2023

Resolution: 4 feet (1.2 meters)

Map Tiles: 518,000

Size: 10 gb

Description

This map features New Jersey 2007 Orthophotography as a texture map for three-dimensional terrain. The Digital Elevation Model of Southern New Jersey includes 1-meter 2015 USGS bare-earth LIDAR data for Camden, Gloucester and Burlington Counties with 2019 1-meter data for Ocean, Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland and Salem Counties from the 2019 South Jersey LIDAR Project. This same imagery is also available as a Mapbox 3d map (South Jersey LIDAR 3d with Aerials).

The NJ 2007 Orthophotography was sampled at 1-meter/pixel and hillshading was added from a light source at 315-degrees azimuth and 45-degrees elevation. This image then serves as texture map for the LIDAR terrain model.

About our different LIDAR-based maps

The year shown in the name of this map is a reference to when it was published, not the date of the imagery itself. All of our LIDAR-based maps of Southern New Jersey (the "LIDAR in the Pines" series) were created from the same 2019 and 2015 source data; the only difference is the presentation. This is also true for our large Northeast US LIDAR map, the Southern New Jersey portion of that map uses the same 2019 and 2015 DEM.

LIDAR in the Pines 2021 HD
Terrain rendered with a 5-color shader plus roads and other features

LIDAR in the Pines 2022 HD
Terrain only, aggressively rendered with a 40-color shader to bring out details

LIDAR the Pines with NJ 2007 Orthoimagery
2007 aerial imagery mapped onto aggressively rendered terrain

Northeast US LIDAR
Plain white terrain rendered in a style that suits the larger Northeast US region

For complete control of terrain rendering, click the blue cube button in the toolbar (desktop version only) which will open the 3d terrain viewer at your current location. Note that the terrain viewer needs laptop-class processors and memory, it has crashed on all the phones and tablets we have tested with the exception of the m4 iPad Pro.

Credits

NJDEP Bureau of GIS, NJ Office of Information Technology, Office of GIS (NJOIT/OGIS)

US Geological Survey 3d Elevation Program (USGS 3DEP)

Sanborn Map Company, Inc.

Use Constraints

This map is © 2023 Boyd Ostroff with all rights reserved. It is provided free of charge for personal, non-commercial, non-organizational use but is not open source software. It may not be published or re-distributed in any form without the written consent of the author. Reasonable usage of map screenshots is permitted as long as they are attributed to boydsmaps.com (preferably with a link to the actual map).

Users should be aware that temporal changes may have occurred since this dataset was collected and that some parts of these data may no longer represent actual surface conditions. Users should not use these data for critical applications without a full awareness of its limitations. Acknowledgement of the U.S. Geological Survey would be appreciated for products derived from these data.

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