A Digital Surface Model (DSM) for United States
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The dataset represents a digital surface models (DSM) representing surface heights on the Earth. The dataset covers the majority of the United States and is a derivative of USGS Lidar data collected mostly over the last decade. To the best of our knowledge it represents the only highest resolution possible dataset publicly available from the underlying LIDAR data. We created it using known LIDAR-to-DSM procedures using standard geospatial tools. We used AWS Lambda Functions running Docker containers to scale the process.
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AB - The dataset represents a digital surface models (DSM) representing surface heights on the Earth. The dataset covers the majority of the United States and is a derivative of USGS Lidar data collected mostly over the last decade. To the best of our knowledge it represents the only highest resolution possible dataset publicly available from the underlying LIDAR data. We created it using known LIDAR-to-DSM procedures using standard geospatial tools. We used AWS Lambda Functions running Docker containers to scale the process.
AU - Zisman, Sagi
A2 - Nag, Ambarish
A3 - Rager, David
A4 - Schneider, Katy
A5 - Ramavajjala, Chinna Subbaraya Siddharth
A6 - Gu, Jianyu
DB - Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)
DP - Open EI | National Renewable Energy Laboratory
DO -
KW - geospatial
KW - lidar
KW - raster
KW - surface
LA - English
DA - 2024/06/28
PY - 2024
PB - NREL
T1 - A Digital Surface Model (DSM) for United States
UR - https://data.openei.org/submissions/8403
ER -
Zisman, Sagi, et al. A Digital Surface Model (DSM) for United States. NREL, 28 June, 2024, Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). https://data.openei.org/submissions/8403.
Zisman, S., Nag, A., Rager, D., Schneider, K., Ramavajjala, C., & Gu, J. (2024). A Digital Surface Model (DSM) for United States. [Data set]. Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). NREL. https://data.openei.org/submissions/8403
Zisman, Sagi, Ambarish Nag, David Rager, Katy Schneider, Chinna Subbaraya Siddharth Ramavajjala, and Jianyu Gu. A Digital Surface Model (DSM) for United States. NREL, June, 28, 2024. Distributed by Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). https://data.openei.org/submissions/8403
@misc{OEDI_Dataset_8403,
title = {A Digital Surface Model (DSM) for United States},
author = {Zisman, Sagi and Nag, Ambarish and Rager, David and Schneider, Katy and Ramavajjala, Chinna Subbaraya Siddharth and Gu, Jianyu},
abstractNote = {The dataset represents a digital surface models (DSM) representing surface heights on the Earth. The dataset covers the majority of the United States and is a derivative of USGS Lidar data collected mostly over the last decade. To the best of our knowledge it represents the only highest resolution possible dataset publicly available from the underlying LIDAR data. We created it using known LIDAR-to-DSM procedures using standard geospatial tools. We used AWS Lambda Functions running Docker containers to scale the process.},
url = {https://data.openei.org/submissions/8403},
year = {2024},
howpublished = {Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI), NREL, https://data.openei.org/submissions/8403},
note = {Accessed: 2025-04-30}
}
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Data from Jun 28, 2024
Last updated Apr 30, 2025
Submission in progress
Organization
NREL
Contact
Sagi Zisman
