Virginia Lidar
Virginia lidar is housed on this site. If you would like us to house your Virginia lidar please email the CGA
A complete map of current holdings
We have converted to laz files for lidar point cloud data and .img for bare earth elevation data. Laz files are lossless compressed las files. They will work with LAStools and other lidar software without the need to be extracted first. Laz offers very high rates of compression and direct read functionality. LasTools will convert your files from laz to las if required.
Most of these data are available on Open Topography as well as at this location.
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2010 Eastern Shore VA Lidar
Counties: Northampton, Accomack
The current lidar point cloud holdings are indexed in PDF, Google Earth, and ArcGIS polygon shapefile format. After selecting your tiles please visit http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/ESLiDAR/LiDAR_ClassifiedPointCloud/ to download your laz and associated files.
You can use the PDF, Google Earth, or ArcGIS shapefile methods described above to download individual bare earth DEM tiles in IMG Format. The download URL for the DEM files is http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/ESLiDAR/DEM
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2010 / 2011 Eleven County Coastal VA Lidar
North: Northumberland, Middlesex, Lancaster, King & Queen, Gloucester, Mathews, James City (partial)
South: James City (partial), Williamsburg, Surry, Isle of Wight, Suffolk
The current lidar point cloud holdings are indexed in PDF (North and South), Google Earth, and ArcGIS polygon shapefile format. After selecting your tiles please visit http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/a11county/LAZ/ to download your laz and associated files.
You can use the PDF, Google Earth, or ArcGIS shapefile methods described above to download individual bare earth DEM tiles in IMG Format. The download URL for the DEM files is http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/a11county/DEM/
To download survey data, enhanced metadata in GIS format, and breaklines (inc., inland lakes, streams, tidal waters, ponds, and rivers) you can go to http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/a11county/
You can use the PDF, Google Earth, or ArcGIS shapefile methods described above to download individual DSM tiles in IMG Format. The download URL for the DSM files is http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/a11county/DSM
You can use the PDF, Google Earth, or ArcGIS shapefile methods described above to download individual hillshade tiles in IMG Format. The download URL for the hillshade files is http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/a11county/HSD/
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2007 Newport News VA Lidar
City of Newport News
The current lidar point cloud holdings are indexed in PDF, Google Earth, and ArcGIS polygon shapefile format. After selecting your tiles please visit http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/Newport_news/laz_files/ to download your laz and associated files.
You can use the PDF, Google Earth, or ArcGIS shapefile methods described above to download individual bare earth tiles. The download URL for each tile is http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/Newport_news/bare_earth_laz_files/
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2010 / 2011 Shenandoah Valley VA Lidar
100% Coverage: Waynesboro, Staunton, Harrisonburg, Winchester, Clarke
50%-100% Coverage: Berkeley (WV), Warren, Frederick, Rockingham, Augusta
25%-50% Coverage: Shenandoah
The current lidar point cloud holdings are indexed in PDF (North and South), Google Earth (North and South), and ArcGIS polygon shapefile format. After selecting your tiles please visit http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/SV/laz/ (north) or http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/SV/SVSouth_LAZ/ (south) to download your laz and associated files.
You can use the PDF, Google Earth, or ArcGIS shapefile methods described above to also download individual bare earth DEM tiles in IMG format. The download URL for the DEM files is http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/SV/dem/
To download survey data, enhanced metadata in GIS format and word format, breaklines (inc., inland lakes, streams, tidal waters, ponds, and rivers), and other information such as QA reports and extents you can go to http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/SV/Metadata/
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2011 Virginia Counties North Lidar
Cities: Fredericksburg, Manassas, Manassas Park
Counties: Essex, King George, Prince William, Richmond, Stafford, Westmoreland, Manassas
The current lidar point cloud holdings are indexed in PDF, Google Earth, and ArcGIS polygon shapefile format. After selecting your tiles please visit http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/VA_Counties_North/NorthernCo_Tiles/ to download your laz and associated files.
You can use the PDF, Google Earth, or ArcGIS shapefile methods described above to download individual bare earth DEM tiles in IMG Format. The download URL for the DEM files is http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/VA_Counties_North/NorthernCo_DEM/
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2011 Virginia Counties South Lidar
City: Franklin City
County: Southampton
The current lidar point cloud holdings are indexed in PDF, Google Earth, and ArcGIS polygon shapefile format. After selecting your tiles please visit http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/VA_Counties_South/SouthernCo_Tiles/ to download your laz and associated files.
You can use the PDF, Google Earth, or ArcGIS shapefile methods described above to download individual bare earth DEM tiles in IMG Format. The download URL for the DEM files is http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/VA_Counties_South/SouthernCo_DEM/
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2011 Virginia Southern Cities Lidar
Cities: Hampton, Portsmouth
The current lidar point cloud holdings are indexed in PDF, Google Earth, and ArcGIS polygon shapefile format. After selecting your tiles please visit http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/SouthernCities/SouthernCities_Tiles/ to download your laz and associated files.
You can use the PDF, Google Earth, or ArcGIS shapefile methods described above to download individual bare earth DEM tiles in IMG Format. The download URL for the DEM files is http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/SouthernCities/SouthernCities_DEM/
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2011 Radford & Blacksburg VA Lidar
Cities: Radford, Blacksburg
The current lidar point cloud holdings are indexed in PDF, Google Earth, and ArcGIS polygon shapefile format. After selecting your tiles please visit http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/Radford_Blacksburg/Radford_Tiles/ to download your laz and associated files.
You can use the PDF, Google Earth, or ArcGIS shapefile methods described above to download individual bare earth DEM tiles in IMG Format. DEMs are not yet available for the Blacksburg area. The download URL for the DEM files is http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/Radford_Blacksburg/Radford_DEM/
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2011 King William County VA Lidar
County: King William
The current lidar point cloud holdings are indexed in PDF, Google Earth, and ArcGIS polygon shapefile format. After selecting your tiles please visit http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/KingWilliamCo/KingWilliam_Tiles/ to download your laz and associated files.
You can use the PDF, Google Earth, or ArcGIS shapefile methods described above to download individual bare earth DEM tiles in IMG Format. The download URL for the DEM files is http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/KingWilliamCo/KingWilliam_DEM/
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2012 Loudoun County VA Lidar
County: Loudoun
The current lidar point cloud holdings are indexed in PDF, Google Earth, and ArcGIS polygon shapefile format. After selecting your tiles please visit http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/Loudoun/Classified_LAZ/ to download your laz and associated files.
You can use the PDF, Google Earth, or ArcGIS shapefile methods described above to download individual bare earth DEM tiles in IMG Format. The download URL for the DEM files is http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/Loudoun/DEMs/
To download enhanced metadata in GIS format and breaklines (inc., inland lakes, streams, tidal waters, ponds, and rivers) you can go to http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/Loudoun/Breaklines/
You can use the PDF, Google Earth, or ArcGIS shapefile methods described above to download individual intensity images in tif Format. The download URL for the intensity images is http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/Loudoun/Intensity_Images/
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2012 Middle Counties VA Lidar
Counties: New Kent, Charles City, Prince George
The current lidar point cloud holdings are indexed in PDF, Google Earth, and ArcGIS polygon shapefile format. After selecting your tiles please visit http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/Middle_Counties/Classified_LAZ/ to download your laz and associated files.
You can use the PDF, Google Earth, or ArcGIS shapefile methods described above to download individual bare earth DEM tiles in IMG Format. The download URL for the DEM files is http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/Middle_County/DEMs/
To download enhanced metadata in GIS format and breaklines (inc., inland lakes, streams, tidal waters, ponds, and rivers) you can go to http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/Middle_Counties/Breaklines
You can use the PDF, Google Earth, or ArcGIS shapefile methods described above to download individual intensity images in tif Format. The download URL for the intensity images is http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/Middle_Counties/Intensity_Images/
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2012 Louisa County VA Lidar
50% Coverage: Louisa
10% Coverage: Fluvanna, Goochland
The current lidar point cloud holdings are indexed in PDF, Google Earth, and ArcGIS polygon shapefile format. After selecting your tiles please visit http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/va_louisaco_2012/laz/ to download your laz and associated files.
You can use the PDF, Google Earth, or ArcGIS shapefile methods described above to download individual bare earth DEM tiles in IMG Format. The download URL for the DEM files is http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/va_louisaco_2012/NED/
You can use the PDF, Google Earth, or ArcGIS shapefile methods described above to download individual intensity images in tif Format. The download URL for the intensity images is http://gisfiles.wm.edu/files/lidar/va_louisaco_2012/INTENSITY_IMAGERY/
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Lidar Tools
Lidar can be manipulated with many tools and extensions. We recommend LAStools for data processing.
Future data will be added as it arrives.