The USGS 3DEP Program and Why You Should Care

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has developed a national 3D elevation program (3DEP) as part of its National Map initiative.  The National Map is a collaborative effort among the USGS and other Federal, State, and local partners to improve the publicly available topographic information for the United States.  The 3DEP layer of the National…

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Add Raster Files to LP360

In the standalone version of LP360 one may add raster files using the ‘Raster Tab’ of the ‘Add Files’ dialog. Then navigate to the desired Raster file(s). The following are the currently supported raster file formats: TIF (*.tif) JPEG (*.jpg) PNG (*.png) GIF (*.gif) BMP (*.bmp) MrSID (*.sid) JP2000 (*.jp2) ECW (*.ecw) IMG (*img) Binary…

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LP360 Digital Elevation Model Edge Mismatch

It may seem that there is an edge mismatch between Digital Elevation Model(s) (DEM) created with LP360 that is showing up when the grids are viewed in different software platforms. For instance, a user might see an offset between grids such as in the example below: After further research into the matter it turns out the issue is…

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