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Lidar Base Specification: References

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Lidar Base Specification 2024 rev. A

List of references provided for additional resources. Not all references are cited on the Lidar Base Specifications web pages. 

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References

American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sens­ing (ASPRS), 2004, Vertical accuracy reporting for lidar data, version 1.0: American Society for Photo­grammetry and Remote Sensing, 20 p. [Also available at http://www.asprs.org/a/society/committees/lidar/Downloads/Vertical_Accuracy_Reporting_for_Lidar_Data.pdf.]

American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sens­ing (ASPRS), 2011, LAS specification (ver. 1.4–R15, July 2019): Bethesda, Md., American Society for Photogram­metry and Remote Sensing, 27 p. [Also available at http://www.asprs.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/LAS_1_4_r15.pdf.]

American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS), 2023, “Positional Accuracy Standards for Digital Geospatial Data”—Edition 2, version 1: American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 25 p., accessed October 20, 2023, at https://publicdocuments.asprs.org/PositionalAccuracyStd-Ed2-V1.

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Federal Geographic Data Committee, 1998, Geospatial positioning accuracy standards, Part 3—National stan­dard for spatial data accuracy: Federal Geographic Data Committee, Subcommittee for Base Carto­graphic Data, FGDC-STD-007.3-1998, 28 p. [Also available at https://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standards-projects/accuracy/part3/chapter3.]

International Standards Organization (ISO), 2007, Geographic information—Spatial referencing by coordinates, ISO 19111:2007, 78 p.

International Standards Organization (ISO), 2015, Geographic information—Well-known text representation of coordinate reference systems, ISO 19162:2015, 85 p.

Isenburg, Martin, 2019, LASzip 3.4.3 documentation, accessed April 11, 2022, at URL https://laszip.org/.

Maune, David F., 2007, Definitions, in Digital elevation model technologies and applications—The DEM users’ manual, 2nd edition: Bethesda, Md., American Society for Photo­grammetry and Remote Sensing, p. 535–564.

National Digital Elevation Program, 2004, Guide­lines for digital elevation data, version 1: National Digital Elevation Program, 93 p. [Also available at https://nationalmap.gov/standards/pdf/NDEP_Elevation_Guidelines_Ver1_10May2004.pdf.]

Obama, Barack, 2013, Making open and machine readable the new default for Government information: Federal Register, v. 78, 3 p., accessed July 30, 2014, at https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-05-14/pdf/2013-11533.pdf.

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Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC), 2001, OpenGIS® implementation specification: Coordinate Transformation Services—Revision 5: Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., 117 p. [Also available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/ct.]

Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC), 2015, Geographic information—Well-known text representation of coordinate reference systems (ver. 1.0): Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., 96 p. [Also available at http://docs.opengeospatial.org/is/12-063r5/12-063r5.html.]

Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC), 2021, OGC® GeoPackage Encoding Standard (ver. 1.3): Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. [Available at https://docs.ogc.org/is/12-128r17/12-128r17.html.]

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