Bathymetric and Topographic LiDAR Survey for Red Bay, January 2006

Red Bay is a small test site surveyed in January 2006. The dataset contains combined bathymetric and topographic LiDAR data, tidally corrected using UK Hydrographic Office software and processed in Caris HIPS to produce a bathymetry dataset with 3-meter horizontal resolution. It is provided by OpenDataNI under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling coastal and underwater terrain based on the 3-meter resolution bathymetry data
• Analyzing tidal influences on coastal topography based on the tidally corrected LiDAR
• Developing or testing algorithms for combined bathymetric and topographic LiDAR data fusion
• Conducting baseline environmental studies for the Red Bay area based on the 2006 survey

Strengths

• Data has been tidally corrected using UK Hydrographic Office 'Total Tide' software
• Processed in Caris HIPS software to produce a defined 3-meter horizontal resolution
• Covers both bathymetric (underwater) and topographic (land) LiDAR data from a single survey

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download

Provenance

Source

OpenDataNI

Collection Method

Airborne LiDAR survey, processed with Caris HIPS software.

Time Range

January 2006

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:20.815452; freshness should be verified

Geography

Red Bay (specific location within the UK, likely Northern Ireland)