Bathymetric LiDAR Survey of Strangford Lough Test Site, 2006

A small test site dataset of combined bathymetric and topographic LiDAR for Strangford Lough, surveyed in January 2006. Data were tidally corrected using UK Hydrographic Office software and cleaned in Caris HIPS to produce a 2-meter horizontal resolution bathymetry dataset. The dataset is provided by OpenDataNI under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling coastal erosion and sediment transport based on the high-resolution bathymetric data.
• Calibrating and validating remote sensing algorithms for shallow-water mapping using the combined topographic and bathymetric LiDAR.
• Assessing habitat suitability for marine species based on the detailed seafloor topography.
• Planning marine infrastructure projects based on the tidally corrected elevation model.

Strengths

• Data has a specified 2-meter horizontal resolution.
• Data underwent tidal correction using UK Hydrographic Office 'Total Tide' software.
• Data cleaning was performed using Caris HIPS software, a standard in hydrographic processing.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset covers a small test site, limiting its geographic scope.

Provenance

Source

OpenDataNI via uk_data platform.

Collection Method

Airborne LiDAR survey, with post-processing involving tidal correction and cleaning in specialized software.

Time Range

January 2006

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:30:42.378278; freshness should be verified.

Geography

A small test site within Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland.