LiDAR for Orkney Islands Council 2023 - LAS

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Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Last updated:
05 March 2026
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Summary

A LiDAR survey of Orkney was commissioned by Orkney Islands Council to support the development of a Coastal Change Adaptation Plan for the islands with additional inland areas surveyed with support from other public bodies. The aerial survey was carried out by Field Group AS in June 2023 and covers 1,655km2. The data was processed and calibrated by Field Group AS and indexed by 1km OS grid. It was supplied in: - Point cloud (.laz format) with a resolution of 16 points per square metre - Digital Terrain Model and Digital Surface Model (DTM and DSM) with 50cm resolution (GeoTIFF) Georeferenced orthophotography (9cm/pixel) were supplied alongside this data as GeoTIFF. Please contact data@jncc.gov.uk if you would like to access this data.

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Added to data.gov.uk
2026-03-04
Access contraints
The following attribution statement must be used to acknowledge the source of the information: Crown copyright Orkney Islands Council © Crown copyright and database right (2023).
Harvest GUID
028c787a-2666-46cd-a531-50f79545694b
Extent
Latitude: 59.4734° to °
Longitude: -3.5223° to -2.236°
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Dataset reference date
2026-03-05 (publication)
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Responsible party
Scottish Government (publisher)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng
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