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Description

The data set described here provides raw lidar data collected as part of a multi-year effort to monitor monthly snow distribution over a 35 km² region of the Mores Creek Headwaters in the Boise Mountains of central Idaho between 2021 and 2025. Data acquisition in 2021 overlapped temporally with the NASA SnowEx 2021 field campaign.

Digital terrain models (DTM), digital surface models (DSM) snow depth models, and canopy height models (CHM) derived from these point cloud data are available as <a href="https://nsidc.org/data/SNEX_MCS_Lidar">SnowEx Mores Creek Summit (MCS) Airborne LiDAR Survey, Version 1</a>.

Product Summary

Platforms
HELICOPTER
Instruments
LIDAR
Spatial Extent

N: 43.974802141694 S: 43.913645323478 E: -115.64243768567 W: -115.73049873632

Geographic Region
IDAHO
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2021-03-10 to 2025-05-01
Concept ID
C3327144996-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
354
Processing Level
0
Science Keywords
Lidar

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

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Ciafone, S., ONeel, S., Adebisi, N., Zikan, K., Enterkine, J., Van Der Weide, T., Wadhwani, Y., Wilder, B., Hoppinen, Z., Filiano, D., & Marshall, H.-P. (2025). SnowEx Mores Creek Summit (MCS) Airborne LiDAR Survey Raw, Version 1 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/OYF98UGSOUQY Date Accessed: 2025-12-16

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