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USGS 3DEP Lidar Point Cloud

This collection contains source data from the [USGS 3DEP program](https://www.usgs.gov/3d-elevation-program) reformatted into the [COPC](https://copc.io) format. A COPC file is a LAZ 1.4 file that stores point data organized in a clustered octree. It contains a VLR that describes the octree organization of data that are stored in LAZ 1.4 chunks. The end product is a one-to-one mapping of LAZ to UTM-reprojected COPC files. LAZ data is geospatial [LiDAR point cloud](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P

Source details

Licence: proprietary

Evidence quality: 22

Listed in planetary-computer public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).

Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z

Evidence

• https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/api/stac/v1/collections/3dep-lidar-copc
• https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/dataset/3dep-lidar-copc

Check upstream coverage, uncertainty and licence before use. Station observations are not forecasts or design levels.