LiDAR Point Clouds - CanElevation Series

The LiDAR Point Clouds is a product that is part of the CanElevation Series created to support the National Elevation Data Strategy implemented by NRCan.

This product contains point clouds from various airborne LiDAR acquisition projects conducted in Canada. These airborne LiDAR acquisition projects may have been conducted by NRCan or by various partners. The LiDAR point cloud data is licensed under an open government license and has been incorporated into the National Elevation Data Strategy.

Point cloud files are distributed by LiDAR acquisition project without integration between projects.

The point cloud files are distributed using the compressed .LAZ / Cloud Optimized Point Cloud (COPC) format. The COPC open format is an octree reorganization of the data inside a .LAZ 1.4 file. It allows efficient use and visualization rendering via HTTP calls (e.g. via the web), while offering the capabilities specific to the compressed .LAZ format which is already well established in the industry. Point cloud files are therefore both downloadable for local use and viewable via URL links from a cloud computing environment.

The reference system used for all point clouds in the product is NAD83(CSRS), epoch 2010. The projection used is the UTM projection with the corresponding zone. Elevations are orthometric and expressed in reference to the Canadian Geodetic Vertical Datum of 2013 (CGVD2013).

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Date ( RI_367 )
2025-04-29
Date ( RI_366 )
2022-12-06
RI_414
  Government of Canada;Natural Resources Canada;Strategic Policy and Innovation Sector, Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation, Geobase - ( )
Status
onGoing; enContinue RI_596
Maintenance and update frequency
unknown; inconnu RI_543
Keywords ( RI_528 )
  • LiDAR
  • Point clouds
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Digital elevation data
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
Access constraints
license; licence RI_606
Use constraints
license; licence RI_606
Spatial representation type
vector; vecteur RI_635
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Metadata language
fre
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Topic category
  • Elevation
Begin date
2014-04-20
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Reference system identifier
https://epsg.io/ / EPSG:3978 /
Reference system identifier
https://epsg.io/ / EPSG:4617 /
Distribution format
  • SHP ( N/A )

  • FGDB/GDB ( 10 )

  • ESRI REST ( 10.8.1 )

  • WMS ( 1.3.0 )

  • GPKG ( 1.3.0 )

  • LAS ( 1.4 )

RI_412
  Government of Canada;Natural Resources Canada;Strategic Policy and Innovation Sector, Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation, Geobase - ( )
OnLine resource
LiDAR Point Clouds ( ESRI REST: Map Server )

Web Service;ESRI REST;eng

OnLine resource
LiDAR Point Clouds ( ESRI REST: Map Server )

Web Service;ESRI REST;fra

OnLine resource
LiDAR Point Clouds - CanElevation Series - Product Specifications ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng

OnLine resource
LiDAR Point Clouds - CanElevation Series - Product Specifications ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;fra

OnLine resource
LiDAR Point Clouds - CanElevation Series - Point clouds download directory ( HTTPS )

Dataset;LAS;eng,fra

OnLine resource
LiDAR Point Clouds - CanElevation Series - Projects Vector Data ( HTTPS )

Dataset;SHP;zxx

OnLine resource
LiDAR Point Clouds - CanElevation Series - Tiles Vector Data ( HTTPS )

Dataset;SHP;zxx

OnLine resource
LiDAR Point Clouds - CanElevation Series - Download instructions ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;fra

OnLine resource
LiDAR Point Clouds - CanElevation Series - Download instructions ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng

OnLine resource
LiDAR Point Clouds - CanElevation Series - LiDAR Projects Bilingual Metadata ( HTTPS )

Dataset;FGDB/GDB;eng,fra

OnLine resource
LiDAR Point Clouds - CanElevation Series - English OGC WMS web service ( HTTPS )

Web Service;WMS;eng

OnLine resource
LiDAR Point Clouds - CanElevation Series - French OGC WMS web service ( HTTPS )

Web Service;WMS;fra

OnLine resource
LiDAR Point Clouds - CanElevation Series - Projects Vector Data ( HTTPS )

Dataset;GPKG;zxx

OnLine resource
LiDAR Point Clouds - CanElevation Series - Tiles Vector Data ( HTTPS )

Dataset;GPKG;zxx

File identifier
7069387e-9986-4297-9f55-0288e9676947 XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2025-04-29T14:49:31
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
RI_414
  Government of Canada;Natural Resources Canada;Strategic Policy and Innovation Sector, Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation, Geobase - ( )
 
 

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