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Kirk Waters
March 4, 2013

A few people have asked about the lidar data that was collected after the storm by USGS and USACE. At the moment, you can find that data on the USGS HDDS site under https://hdds.usgs.gov/hdds2/pub/data/disaster/201210_Hurricane_Sandy/dat....

Since this data isn't ingested into the HDDS system, you won't find it by using the usual HDDS search (or so I believe). I expect it may eventually be ingested and become searchable. Note that you will need to register with HDDS to download (but that's easy). Make sure you read the documentation that comes with the data on HDDS. I saw at least one USGS lidar data set that said it used GEOID96 to get to NAVD88.

The lidar data that USACE contracted to the private sector can also be found on the Digital Coast data viewer.