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Title: Boston Metro, MA (Building Footprints and Heights from LIDAR, 2002)

  • Polygon data
  • 2002
Contributors:

Dates

  • Issued: April 07, 2002
  • Coverage: April 07, 2002
  • Coverage: 2002
  • Coverage: 2002 to 2002

Publishers

  • Massachusetts Office of Geographic and Environmental Information (MassGIS)

Summary

This dataset consists of 2D footprints of the buildings in the metropolitan Boston area, as well as ground and building heights. This data set was collected using 3Di's Digital Airborne Topographic Imaging System II (DATIS II). The DVD containing this file and additional lidar data is available in the MIT GIS Lab.

Subjects

  • Structure
  • Massachusetts--Boston Metropolitan Area
  • Massachusetts--Boston
  • Massachusetts--Arlington
  • Massachusetts--Belmont
  • Massachusetts--Cambridge
  • Massachusetts--Chelsea
  • Massachusetts--Dedham
  • Massachusetts--Everett
  • Massachusetts--Medford
  • Massachusetts--Milton
  • Massachusetts--Newton
  • Massachusetts--Quincy
  • Massachusetts--Revere
  • Massachusetts--Somerville
  • Massachusetts--Watertown
  • Massachusetts--Winthrop
  • Optical radar
  • Global Positioning System
  • Buildings
  • lidar
  • light detection and ranging
  • DATIS/ Digital Airborne Topographical Imaging System
  • building footprint
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-71.197465, -70.953492, 42.404600, 42.223068)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-71.197465, -70.953492, 42.404600, 42.223068)

Provider

GIS Lab, MIT Libraries

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

3Di Technologies, Inc.(Now Spectrum Mapping LLC). Boston Metro, MA (Building Footprints and Heights from LIDAR, 2002). Massachusetts Office of Geographic and Environmental Information (MassGIS). Polygon data. https://geodata.libraries.mit.edu/record/gismit:US_MA_BOSTONMET_G46BLDGHT_2002

Format

Shapefile

Languages

  • eng