List of freely accessible LiDAR data and digital terrain models

 THIS LIST IS NOT UPDATED ANYMORE. I MOVED IT TO THIS SITE https://arheologijaslovenija.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page_81.html

Surveying surface of the Earth with LiDAR technology is increasing, thereby the database of LiDAR data is constantly increasing.

And some databases are openly available on the internet. In the vast majority of a LiDAR surveys were and are undertaken by various government agencies of various countries around the world. Openly available LiDAR data in available in different formats, coordinate systems and state of processing (from the cleaned point cloud data to the digital terrain model of the ground).

On the internet you can find many different lists of digital terrain models of ground (DTM) and LiDAR data recording, but almost all receive an irregular update and are therefore deficient.

I encourage people to try different LiDAR data to try something new. In addition to new technical GIS knowledge you will gain it is also fun to discover new archaeological sites or view the famous archaeological sites from LiDAR “view” in other countries.

Conditions for making to the list are:

• free access to files
• files are already classified lidar data (files with the extension .LAS, .LAZ, .zLAS, .ASC, .XYZ)
• a digital terrain model of resolution 5m or less (files with the extension .GeoTIFF, .ASC, .IMAGE, .DEM)

I will mark when .ASC is point cloud and when raster.


!When ftp server is available use of ftp client is recommended. Here is guide how to setup open-source ftp client  FileZilla.

I will check list monthly and update it regularly.

If you have any trouble getting data from internet sites on this list, leave a message on the comments and I'll help.

If you know the source I missed or it is brand new, leave a message in the comments and I'll be happy to check it in and add it to the list.

Europe

Country	Region/City/State	Format	CRS/Koordinatni sistem	Particularities
Austria	Wien	GeoTIFF	EPSG:31256
Belgium	Wallonia	GeoTIFF	EPSG:31370	Click on bold link Downloaden and pick file
Denmark		GeoTIFF	EPSG:25832	Free registration needed
England		ASCII-raster	EPSG:27700
Finland		LAZ	EPSG:3067	In datasets search LiDAR
Germany	North Rhine-Westphalia	XZY-points	EPSG:25832	Under DGM folder you can select DTM files
Germany	Thuringia	XZY/LAZ	EPSG:25832	Search for place name and then click it to select 1x1km big quadrant
Italy	Bolzano, South Tyrol	GeoTIFF	EPSG:3044
Italy	Friuli-Venezia	ASCII-raster	EPSG:3044	On right side search places
Italy	Trentino	ASCII-raster	EPSG:4326	In the top row, click the icon cursor pointing to the cube
Spain	Basque	LAS	EPSG:25830
Luxemburg		ASCII	EPSG:2169	Whole countrie in one file
Netherland		GeoTIFF/LAZ	EPSG:28992	AHN3 dataset
Netherland		GeoTIFF	EPSG:28992	AHN2 dataset
Northern Ireland		ASCII-raster	EPSG:29901	Check coverage map.
Scotland		ASCII-raster	EPSG:27700	Pick resolution, then under data resources click link. One big file.
Slovenia		zLAS/LAZ	EPSG:25830
Spain		LAZ	EPSG:4258	Under municipio search place or municipy
Spain	Catalonia	LAZ	EPSG:25830
Spain	La Rioja	LAZ/GeoTIFF	EPSG:25830	Click on cartgrafia tematica and search lidar or modelo digital
Switzerland	Solothurn canton	LAZ/GeoTIFF	EPSG:21781
Switzerland	Zurich canton	LAZ/GeoTIFF	EPSG:2056	In maps menu seek LiDAR
Wales		ASCII-raster	EPSG:27700

North America

Country	Region/City/State	Format	CRS	Particularities
ZDA	Indiana	LAS/IMAGE-raster	EPSG:2965/2966	In datasets the LiDAR in DEM files are under IndianaMap Data
ZDA	Kentucky	LAZ/IMAGE-raster	USER defined	Search LiDAR, select LiDAR or DTM, then click link to go to ftp server
ZDA	Louisiana	XZY/DEM-raster	EPSG:26915
ZDA	Minnesota	LAZ	See each dataset	Search by counties/ftp access
ZDA	North Dakota	LAS/XYZ/IMAGE-raster/ASCII-raster	EPSG:26914
ZDA	Ohio	LAS/ASCII-raster	EPSG:32122
ZDA	Washington	LAS/XYZ/IMAGE-raster/ASCII-raster	EPSG:Custom-is written in files	With tool for select region choose region and then choose data for download

Latin America and Caribbean

Country	Region/City/State	Format	CRS	Particularities
Haiti		LAS/ASCII-raster	EPSG:3857

Oceania

Country	Region/City/State	Format	CRS	Particularities
New Zealand		LAZ/ASCII-points/GeoTIFF	EPSG:2193	Click on wanted data set. Then click on Point cloud data. On next page use select region and then choose format of data for download