The ACT Government acquired Airborne LiDAR in 2020 and 2015 for the entire ACT. This dataset may be used to model:
- the impacts of climate change
- disaster management
- water security
- environmental management
- urban planning and
- infrastructure design.
The 2020 LiDAR data covers the entire ACT with a density of 12 pulses per square metre (ppm).
LiDAR is classified to Level 3 (for ground). It's delivered as LAS v1.4 in in GDA2020, MGA2020 z55 in the following vertical datums:
- GDA2020 ellipsoidal
- AHD
- AVWS.
Licence conditions
The LiDAR data is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. The ACT Government requests attribution as:
(c) Australian Capital Territory and Aerometrex Limited.
How to access the LiDAR data
Download
Download the classified LiDAR point cloud data for the ACT from Elevation – Foundation Spatial Data.
Request a full dataset
The entire set of 2020 LiDAR data is available from the Office of the Surveyor-General and Land Information (OSGLI). Email spatialdata@act.gov.au to request a copy.
The full dataset includes:
- 12ppm Classified LiDAR Point Cloud, 1km x 1km tiles - LAS 1.4 Ellipsoidal
- 12ppm Classified LiDAR Point Cloud, 1km x 1km tiles - LAS 1.4 Orthometric (AHD)
- 12ppm Classified LiDAR Point Cloud, 1km x 1km tiles - LAS 1.4 AVWS
- Unclassified LiDAR Point Cloud– LAS 1.2 Ellipsoidal
- Raw full waveform data swaths (untiled) – ASCII text file (for a subset of the 8ppsm data over Canberra city centres)
- Decompressed full waveform data swaths (untiled) – ASCII text file (for a subset of the 8ppsm data over Canberra city centres)
- Orthophotography – mosaic in ECW format, 2km x 2km geotiff tiles and stereo pairs
- 1m DEM derived from the 12ppm point clouds - 1km x 1km tiles
- 1m DSM derived from the 12ppm point clouds - 1km x 1km tiles
- 50cm contours
- Metadata – as ANZLIC and NEDF compliant XML files
- Tile index shapefile