Publication information

Geological Survey of Canada
Open File 7229

LiDAR and digital aerial photography of Saanich Peninsula, selected Gulf Islands, and coastal 
regions from Mill Bay to Ladysmith, southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Jan M. Bednarski and Garry C. Rogers 

© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 2012

doi:10.495/291819

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Recommended citation

Bednarski, J.M. and Rogers, 2012. LiDAR and digital aerial photography of Saanich Peninsula, selected Gulf Islands, and coastal regions from Mill Bay to Ladysmith, southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7229. doi:10.4095/291819

Contents

LiDAR derived bare earth elevation grid, forest canopy height model and orthorectified aerial imagery of Saanich Peninsula, selected Gulf Islands, and coastal regions from Mill Bay to Ladysmith, southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia

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Directory structure

licence_agreement_e.rtf (end-user agreement in English)
readme.rtf (English version of this file)
of_7729.pdf (survey overview)
/CHM (forest canopy height model, GeoTIF, 2 m spatial resolution)
/DEM (bare-Earth LiDAR elevation grid, in GeoTif format and georeferenced jpeg image of the bare-earth DEM)
/ECW (orthorectified aerial imagery in 1 km X 1 km blocks, in ECW format)
/INDEX (index files, indicating the naming convention for the 1 km by 1 km blocks in PDF format and as a shape file)

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Author contact information

Jan Bednarski (jbednars@nrcan.gc.ca)
Geological Survey of Canada
Pacific Geoscience Centre
9860 W. Saanich Road
Sidney, BC
V8L 4B2

Availability information

This publication is available for free download through GEOSCAN (http://geoscan.ess.nrcan.gc.ca/).