USGS LiDAR progress in Wyoming 2025-11-24 - more LiDAR point clouds
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Glenn Borkenhagen
Nov 25, 2025, 12:23:14 PM (6 days ago) Nov 25
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Greetings to WyGeo -
The USGS recently released some more aerial LiDAR point cloud (LPC) tiles for Wyoming.
New coverage is of the Casper metropolitan area as well as surrounding lands within Natrona County, totalling about 430 square miles.
Data was collected between 01 August 2024 and 07 August 2025. These tiles are Quality Level 1 (QL1) data, the highest quality typically provided by USGS.
A georeferenced PDF map showing the area of the latest releases is available here.
The magenta area on that map was released on Monday 24 November 2025.
The coverage area already has LPC coverage from previous projects, so if you want to use the latest data provided at The National Map Download make sure "WY Southeast D24" appears in the name(s) of the tile(s). On Tuesday 25 November 2025 the tiles are there ready for free downloading using the various selection methods. (It has been noted that the Point selection method is not working properly as of this writing - it either returns an error message that too many files were selected or does not find anything at all. Use another selection method.)
It appears that raster (GeoTIFF) one-meter digital elevation models (DEMs) are not yet available for this new data. Generally USGS delays issuing new DEMs until after all LPCs in a project are completed and released. The USGS refers to this project as "WY Southeast D24" and this project is called "2024 USGS Wyoming Southeast Lidar" on the US Interagency Elevation Inventory webpage.
Regards,
Glenn Borkenhagen
Cody, Wyoming
307-272-5044
gl...@inlandgps.com
The USGS recently released some more aerial LiDAR point cloud (LPC) tiles for Wyoming.
New coverage is of the Casper metropolitan area as well as surrounding lands within Natrona County, totalling about 430 square miles.
Data was collected between 01 August 2024 and 07 August 2025. These tiles are Quality Level 1 (QL1) data, the highest quality typically provided by USGS.
A georeferenced PDF map showing the area of the latest releases is available here.
The magenta area on that map was released on Monday 24 November 2025.
The coverage area already has LPC coverage from previous projects, so if you want to use the latest data provided at The National Map Download make sure "WY Southeast D24" appears in the name(s) of the tile(s). On Tuesday 25 November 2025 the tiles are there ready for free downloading using the various selection methods. (It has been noted that the Point selection method is not working properly as of this writing - it either returns an error message that too many files were selected or does not find anything at all. Use another selection method.)
It appears that raster (GeoTIFF) one-meter digital elevation models (DEMs) are not yet available for this new data. Generally USGS delays issuing new DEMs until after all LPCs in a project are completed and released. The USGS refers to this project as "WY Southeast D24" and this project is called "2024 USGS Wyoming Southeast Lidar" on the US Interagency Elevation Inventory webpage.
Regards,
Glenn Borkenhagen
Cody, Wyoming
307-272-5044
gl...@inlandgps.com
Karen Rogers
Nov 25, 2025, 1:18:52 PM (6 days ago) Nov 25
to Glenn Borkenhagen, Wyoming Geospatial Organization
This is fantastic news, Glenn! Thank you for sending out these updates to keep us posted on the latest data availability.
Happy Thanksgiving to the WyGEO community!
Karen Rogers, GISP
Former President, WyGEO
Former President, National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC)
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