Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Coastal Services Center (CSC) Publication_Date: 2013 Title: NOAA Coastal Services Center Coastal Inundation Digital Elevation Model: Baltimore/Washington Weather Forecast Office (LWX WFO) - Maryland (West of Chesapeake Bay) Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Raster Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Charleston, SC Publisher: NOAA's Ocean Service, Coastal Services Center (CSC) Online_Linkage: http://www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/slrviewer Online_Linkage: http://www.csc.noaa.gov Description: Abstract: These data were created as part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Coastal Services Center's efforts to create an online mapping viewer called the Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts Viewer. It depicts potential sea level rise and its associated impacts on the nation's coastal areas. The purpose of the mapping viewer is to provide coastal managers and scientists with a preliminary look at sea level rise (slr) and coastal flooding impacts. The viewer is a screening-level tool that uses nationally consistent data sets and analyses. Data and maps provided can be used at several scales to help gauge trends and prioritize actions for different scenarios. The Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts Viewer may be accessed at: http://www.csc.noaa.gov/slr This digital elevation model (DEM) is a part of a series of DEMs produced for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Coastal Services Center's Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts Viewer described above. The DEM created for this project was developed using the NOAA National Weather Service's Weather Forecast Office (WFO) boundaries. This DEM includes the best available lidar data known to exist at the time of DEM creation that met project specifications, for Maryland, west of the Chesapeake Bay. This DEM falls in the Baltimore/Washington (LWX) WFO. The DEM covers the following Maryland counties: Baltimore City (portion), Howard (portion), Anne Arundel, Charles, and St. Mary's. This DEM does not include the counties that are also in the LWX WFO of Baltimore, Calvert, and Harford. This is because the lidar data for these counties are licensed and unavailable for distribution to the general public. As such, the extent of this DEM is different than that of the DEM used by the NOAA Coastal Services Center in creating the inundation data seen in the Sea Level Rise and Coastal Impacts Viewer (www.csc.noaa.gov/slr/viewer). This DEM is derived from multiple lidar datasets furnished by NOAA, the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and the United States Geological Survey (USGS). A list of lidar data sources can be found in the Process Lineage. Hydrographic breaklines were delineated using lidar intensity imagery generated from the lidar. The DEM is hydro flattened such that water elevations are less than or equal to 0 meters. The DEM is referenced vertically to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88) with vertical units of meters and horizontally to the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83). The resolution of the DEM is approximately 10 meters. Purpose: The NOAA Coastal Services Center has developed high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) for use in the Center's Sea Level Rise And Coastal Flooding Impacts internet mapping application. These DEMs serve as source datasets used to derive data to visualize the impacts of inundation resulting from sea level rise along the coastal United States and its territories. Supplemental_Information: The following are the constituent lidar datasets used to create this DEM: 1. 2008 USGS City of Baltimore Lidar 2. 2004 Maryland Department of Natural Resources (MD DNR) Lidar: Anne Arundel, Charles, Howard, and St. Mary's Counties The 2008 USGS City of Baltimore Lidar is publicly available via the USGS EarthExplorer at: http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ The MD DNR dataset is publicly available via the NOAA Coastal Services Center Digital Coast at: http://www.csc.noaa.gov/lidar Additional information about the MD DNR dataset is available at: 1. 2004 MD DNR Lidar: Anne Arundel, Charles, Howard, and St. Mary's Counties http://csc.noaa.gov/dataviewer/webfiles/metadata/md2004_template.html Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 2004 Ending_Date: 2008 Currentness_Reference: ground condition Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -77.527388 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -76.035735 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 39.721549 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 37.888446 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category Theme_Keyword: elevation Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Theme_Keyword: Bathymetry/Topography Theme_Keyword: elevation Theme_Keyword: Digital Elevation Model Theme_Keyword: DEM Theme_Keyword: lidar Theme_Keyword: inundation Theme_Keyword: flooding Theme_Keyword: lidar Theme_Keyword: topography Theme_Keyword: sea level rise Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Place_Keyword: US Place_Keyword: Maryland Place_Keyword: Baltimore City Place_Keyword: Howard County Place_Keyword: Anne Arundel County Place_Keyword: Charles County Place_Keyword: St. Mary's County Access_Constraints: None Use_Constraints: The dataset is provided as is, without warranty to its performance, merchantable state, or fitness for any particular purpose. The entire risk associated with the results and performance of this dataset is assumed by the user. This dataset should be used strictly as a planning reference and not for navigation, permitting, or other legal purposes. Data_Set_Credit: Acknowledgment of the NOAA Coastal Services Center as a data source would be appreciated in products developed from these data, and such acknowledgment as is standard for citation and legal practices for data source is expected. Data_Quality_Information: Logical_Consistency_Report: Data covers the tile scheme provided for the project area. Elevation data checked for anomalous elevation values outside expected range. Completeness_Report: A visual qualitative check was performed to ensure data completeness. All available lidar data known at the time of DEM creation that meets project specifications has been used to develop the DEM. Known data gaps may exist where lidar coverage was incomplete. Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: The DEM is derived from the source lidar data. Horizontal accuracy testing is not performed on the DEM. Lidar source data assumed to meet 1 meter horizontal accuracy. Vertical_Positional_Accuracy: Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report: The DEM is derived from the source lidar data. Vertical accuracy is not tested on the DEM. Project specifications require all source lidar data used in constructing the DEM to meet FEMA Specifications for Flood Hazard Mapping. Lineage: Process_Step: Process_Description: The following datasets were used to develop the DEM: 1. 2008 USGS City of Baltimore Lidar 2. 2004 Maryland Department of Natural Resources (MD DNR) Lidar: Anne Arundel, Charles, Howard, and St. Mary's Counties Hydrographic breaklines were delineated using lidar intensity imagery generated from the lidar. Process_Date: 2012 Process_Step: Process_Description: GeoCue software was used to develop lidar intensity imagery from the lidar. The raster resolution was 1 ft or 0.3 m. Process_Date: 2012 Process_Step: Process_Description: Lidar intensity images were viewed in 2-D in ArcMap. Hydrographic features were collected as 2D breaklines. Process_Date: 2012 Process_Step: Process_Description: Class 2, ground lidar points are exported from the LAS files into an Arc Geodatabase (GDB) in multipoint format. Hydro breaklines are assigned an elevation of -0.5 meters and loaded into an Arc GDB. An ESRI Terrain is generated from these inputs. Process_Date: 2012 Process_Step: Process_Description: The ESRI Terrain is converted to a DEM in Erdas image file format with a cell size of 3 meters. The DEM is reviewed in Global Mapper for incorrect elevations and artifacts that are introduced from source inputs or during the raster creation process. Corrections are applied to the DEMs and reprocessed for review. Process_Date: 2012 Process_Step: Process_Description: All DEMs are loaded into Global Mapper for the last review. During this last review, an analyst checks to ensure full, complete coverage, no issues along DEM boundaries, DEMs seamlessly edge-match, and that there are no remaining processing artifacts in the dataset. Once approved, DEMs are re-projected to the NAD83 geographic coordinate system. Process_Date: 2012 Process_Step: Process_Description: Upon receipt of the DEM from Dewberry, NOAA CSC resampled the data from 3 m resolution to 5 m resolution to improve the review and editing time. The data was then resampled to 10 m to allow for improved functionality in the Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts Viewer. Process_Date: 2012 Spatial_Data_Organization_Information: Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Raster Raster_Object_Information: Raster_Object_Type: Grid Cell Row_Count: 20406 Column_Count: 16605 Vertical_Count: 1 Spatial_Reference_Information: Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition: Geographic: Latitude_Resolution: 0.0000001 Longitude_Resolution: 0.0000001 Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees Geodetic_Model: Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983 Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80 Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000 Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222101 Vertical_Coordinate_System_Definition: Altitude_System_Definition: Altitude_Datum_Name: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 Altitude_Resolution: 0.001 Altitude_Distance_Units: meters Altitude_Encoding_Method: Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates Distribution_Information: Distributor: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: NOAA Coastal Services Center Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical Address: 2234 South Hobson Ave. City: Charleston State_or_Province: SC Postal_Code: 29405-2413 Contact_Voice_Telephone: 843-740-1202 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: csc.info@noaa.gov Resource_Description: Downloadable Data Distribution_Liability: Any conclusions drawn from the analysis of this information are not the responsibility of the NOAA Coastal Services Center or its partners. Metadata_Reference_Information: Metadata_Date: 201303 Metadata_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: NOAA Coastal Services Center Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical Address: 2234 South Hobson Avenue City: Charleston State_or_Province: SC Postal_Code: 29405-2413 Contact_Voice_Telephone: 843-740-1202 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: csc.info@noaa.gov Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998