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2011 Mat Su LiDAR & Imagery Project

  • General Info
  • Current Status
  • Products
  • Order Data
  • Downloadable Documents

  • General Information

    Contacts
    James DePasquale GIS Manager
    907-745-9858

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    The 2011 MSB LiDAR & Imagery Project is a collection of high-resolution elevation data and aerial imagery for 3680 square miles of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough (MSB) as well as the development of a number of ancillary datasets. For data management purposes the project has been divided into 7 blocks/areas: Matanuska, Core Area, Point MacKenzie, Willow, Caswell Lakes, Talkeetna, & North Susitna. The project is being managed by the MSB in collaboration with the US Geological Survey (USGS) and US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS).

    The following partners have contributed funding and/or resources to the project: Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP); United States Geological Survey (USGS); Alaska Energy Authority (AEA); United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS); The Nature Conservancy (TNC); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Mat-Su Salmon Partnership; United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE); Alaska Pacific University (APU); & Matanuska Susitna Borough (MSB).

     

    Project Area Map
    Project Area Map by Blocks

    Profile View of Point Cloud Data – Old Matanuska River Bridge, Palmer, AK

  • Current Status

    For data management purposes the project has been divided into 7 blocks/areas.

    While most of the project area was flown in 2011, a small portion of LiDAR was not collected in Hatcher Pass area and portion of imagery was not collected for the Matanuska Block. Those areas will be collected in 2012.

    All the areas that were flown in 2011 are in various states of completion and availability.

    The following table provides a status update on the products by block.

    Block Imagery LiDAR &
    Ancillary Products
    ½ ft Resolution 1ft Resolution
    Point MacKenzie Block  N/A  Accepted  Accepted
    Willow Block  N/A  Accepted  QA/QC
    Caswell Lake Block  N/A  Accepted  QA/QC
    Talkeetna Block  N/A  Accepted  QA/QC
    North Susitna Block  N/A  Accepted  In Production
    Core Area Block  QA/QC  In Production  In Production
    Matanuska Block  QA/QC  In Production  In Production

     

    The status can fall into one of five categories:

    In Production = Being developed by the vendor.
    QA/QA = Delivered and going through the Quality Assurance Quality Control (QA/QC) process.
    Accepted =     Passed the QA/QC process and has been accepted.
    Available = Prepared for distribution and available.
    N/A =     Product not available for the area.

  • Products

    • Orthorectified, multispectral, 4-band imagery (RGB & NIR); ½ ft resolution, for a 270 sq/mi urban area; 1 ft resolution, for the entire 3680 sq/mi project area
    • Point Cloud Data w/ 1m true nominal pulse spacing (nps) and 0.6m nps through overlap (these data meet both USGS & FEMA specs); classified and unclassified
    • Automated “vegetation” classification; low (1-6ft), medium (6-15ft) and high (>15ft) Intensity Images
    • 1 m first return digital surface model (DSM) (aka top of canopy)
    • 1 m bare earth digital elevation model (DEM) w/ hydro-flattening
    • 1 m first return hillshade
    • 1m bare earth hillshade
    • 2 ft contours
    • Building footprints @ 97% accuracy
    • Breaklines

    More information about each of these products can be found in the Frequently Asked Questions.

    Ortho-Imagery (True Color Composite) Bare Earth Hillshade Contours Ortho-Imagery (NIR False Color Composite)

  • Order Data

    LiDAR data is not available just yet.  Check back here in the near future for online ordering.
Interactive Mapping Services
Interactive Mapping Services History

These sites are made possible through grants from the Alaska Cadastral Project, which is run by the U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Website development began in 2003-04. The Alaska Cadastral Project also provided funds to complete and improve the spatial accuracy of the Borough's parcel base. The Borough's parcel base map was completed in June 2005. Efforts to increase the spatial accuracy of the Borough's parcel base are ongoing. These sites are intended to make access to public information easier.
 
Interactive Mapping Services Sites

MSB Tax Parcel Viewer - Borough tax parcel maps in Adobe .PDF format (requires plug-in). View and print tax maps. Data is current as of 12/31/10.

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MSB Parcel Assessment and Address Finder - Parcels, land and improvement values, generalized ownership information, service areas, recording districts, subdivisions, and site addresses. Search for information, view information and print a map.

 

MSB Public Lands Viewer - Land Administration - Public lands, public facilities, refuges, Special Planning Use Districts (SPUD), Native Corporation boundaries. Search for information, view information, and print a map. Currency of this data varies, and some parcel data is generalized to the section lines.

 

MSB Public Lands Viewer - Natural Resources - Geology; metallic & non-metallic minerals, sand and gravel, peat, oil, coal, natural gas; mining claims; oil wells; coal and natural gas leases; state & national parks, state recreation areas, refuges, Special Planning Use Districts (SPUD), Borough parcel information. Search for information, view information, and print a map. WARNING - Currency of this data varies and may be incomplete; lease information may be outdated. Some information is from a study conducted in 2003.

 

MSB Public Lands Viewer - Recreation - Parks, recreation areas, refuges, public facilities, public lake and river access, legally dedicated public trails, airports, public easements. View information, and print a map.

 

The ArcIMS Viewers contain the following base information: Roads, mileposts, railroads, airports, public easements, streams, rivers, lakes, city boundaries, community council boundaries, tax map grids, township / section grids, and imagery.

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MSB Wetlands Viewer - Wetlands in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.

 


Related Links

Kenai Watershed Forum Matanuska-Susitna Wetland Mapping website (Google Earth .kmz)

 

Other GIS resources in Alaska

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