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The 3DEP Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) facilitates partnering with the USGS and other Federal agencies to acquire high-quality 3D elevation data for the nation. Follow these guidelines to apply.

3D Elevation Program lidar in dark blue shown over a portion of Chicago, Illinois. 

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3DEP lidar rendering of Millsite Reservoir near Millsite State Park, Utah. 

The USGS Earth Mapping Resources Initiative and USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP), Department of Energy Geothermal Technologies Office, Natural Resources Conservation Services, and Bureau of Land Management have partnered to conduct airborne geophysical and 3DEP lidar surveys over parts of Nevada and California to collect information on undiscovered geothermal, criti

Geiger mode 3DEP lidar point cloud over Chicago, IL from 3DEP Project USGS Lidar Point Cloud IL 4County Cook 2017

The USGS 3DEP DEM viewer may be accessed at: https://apps.nationalmap.gov/3depdem

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This is a 3DEP lidar digital rendering of Grand Teton National Park.

This is a geiger mode lidar image colored by elevation over Cook County, Illinois

"Old Hickory" is a prospect deposit site discovered in 1988 in the Appalachian Highlands of Virginia.  DEM Shows the Stoney Creek area, with 5x vertical exaggeration.

Figure 2: Zooming in to red rectangle A from figure 1. Points colored by laser intensity (blue = low intensity, red = high intensity).

Figure 3: Zooming in and rotating scene in 3D from figure 2. Points coloer by laser intensity (blue = low intensity, red = high intensity).

An oblique perspective of Alaska's Denali Mountain visualized by 3D Elevation Program lidar data. 

3D rendering of Mesa County, Colorado landslide from 3DEP lidar. Lidar point cloud with color from imagery.

3D rendering of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, from 3DEP DEMs

A Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of a section of Bitterroot National Forest. 

3D lidar point cloud rendering of an agricultural area based on 2017 California Central Valley lidar data.

A lidar point cloud of the National Mall, Washington, D.C. Photograph Credit: Jason Stoker, USGS

3D view of the Flat Tops Wilderness Area in White River National Forest, Colorado. Hillshade derived from a 1-meter resolution DEM, overlaid with ESRI's world imagery.

A 3D dimensional oblique visualization made by 3DEP lidar point cloud of the Washington Memorial, Washington D.C.

Sample graphic of airborne lidar data acquisition. Target area is illuminated by pulsed laser light in the aircraft, Differences in laser return times and wavelengths are then used to make digital 3D representations of the selected ground sections.

Aerial photo of the Oso, Washington landslide in 2014. The red arrows show the direction of material flow. The inset lidar image was derived from 3DEP data collected by the Washington Department of Transportation.