Four New Zealand datasets now available for Blenheim, Golden Bay, Abel Tasman, and Richmond and Motueka

OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of four new lidar datasets covering about 1,790 km² of the north coast of New Zealand's South Island: Blenheim, the Wairau valley region, and lower Awatere river corridor; Golden Bay, including Aorere Extension, Farewell Spit, Lee Dam, and St. Arnaud; Abel Tasman and Golden Bay; and Richmond and Motueka. The data were collected by AAM and New Zealand Aerial Mapping for the Tasman and Marlborough District Councils, respectively, and were provided to OpenTopography by Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) as part of an ongoing collaboration that makes OpenTopography the primary distribution platform for LINZ point cloud data.

Get the data:
Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand 2014
Golden Bay, Tasman, New Zealand 2017
Abel Tasman and Golden Bay, Tasman, New Zealand 2016
Richmond and Motueka, Tasman, New Zealand 2015



Left, An image derived from a Digital Surface Model (DSM) of the braiding of Wairau River, in the Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand 2014 dataset, colored by elevation, and, right, a grayscale hillshade of a DTM produced from the Abel Tasman and Golden Bay, Tasman, New Zealand 2016 dataset.