USGS LiDAR progress in Wyoming 2026-06-08 - more product-level 1-meter DEMs
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Glenn Borkenhagen
Jun 9, 2026, 7:51:10 AMJun 9
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Greetings to WyGeo -
The USGS recently released some more product-level LiDAR-derived raster (GeoTIFF) 10-km x 10-km one-meter bare-earth DEM (digital elevation model) tiles for Wyoming.
New coverage is of a bit over 5,200 square miles, consisting of all of Goshen County, a good portion of Carbon County, the area around Casper in Natrona County, and a small sliver of Albany County.
A georeferenced PDF showing the area of the latest release is available here. The blue area on that PDF was released on Monday 08 June 2026.
This project, known within USGS as "WY_Southeast_D24", is made up of four work units. The data was collected from July 2024 to May 2025. All the lidar point clouds (LPCs) used to generate these DEMs is Quality Level 1 (QL1), the highest quality typically provided by USGS.
Right now the new coverage area does not appear on the map images provided at The National Map Download and USGS _ LidarExplorer when you click on "Show" but that should change in the next few days.
As of this writing (morning of Tuesday 09 June), both of the generally easy-to-use sources in the previous paragraph have this new data available. They usually have the data available for downloading soon after release, before it appears on their respective maps.
The coverage area already has QL2 coverage from previous projects, so if you want to use the latest higher-quality data and use the selection methods provided at The National Map Download or USGS_LidarExplorer make sure "WY Southeast D24" appears in the name(s) of the tile(s) because those selection methods will get all data for an area regardless of the project. It may make more sense to use one of the selection methods from the next paragraph, especially if it is desired to download all the new data.
Also, the data is available from the USGS Rockyweb server (step-by-step instructions are here) and via Amazon Web Services (AWS - step-by-step instructions are here). On Tuesday 09 June 2026 the data was available via both of those methods.
To facilitate use of those sources -
The project is "WY_Southeast_D24" without the quotes
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 product-level LiDAR-derived raster (GeoTIFF) 10-km x 10-km one-meter bare-earth DEM (digital elevation model) tiles for Wyoming.
New coverage is of a bit over 5,200 square miles, consisting of all of Goshen County, a good portion of Carbon County, the area around Casper in Natrona County, and a small sliver of Albany County.
A georeferenced PDF showing the area of the latest release is available here. The blue area on that PDF was released on Monday 08 June 2026.
This project, known within USGS as "WY_Southeast_D24", is made up of four work units. The data was collected from July 2024 to May 2025. All the lidar point clouds (LPCs) used to generate these DEMs is Quality Level 1 (QL1), the highest quality typically provided by USGS.
Right now the new coverage area does not appear on the map images provided at The National Map Download and USGS _ LidarExplorer when you click on "Show" but that should change in the next few days.
As of this writing (morning of Tuesday 09 June), both of the generally easy-to-use sources in the previous paragraph have this new data available. They usually have the data available for downloading soon after release, before it appears on their respective maps.
The coverage area already has QL2 coverage from previous projects, so if you want to use the latest higher-quality data and use the selection methods provided at The National Map Download or USGS_LidarExplorer make sure "WY Southeast D24" appears in the name(s) of the tile(s) because those selection methods will get all data for an area regardless of the project. It may make more sense to use one of the selection methods from the next paragraph, especially if it is desired to download all the new data.
Also, the data is available from the USGS Rockyweb server (step-by-step instructions are here) and via Amazon Web Services (AWS - step-by-step instructions are here). On Tuesday 09 June 2026 the data was available via both of those methods.
To facilitate use of those sources -
The project is "WY_Southeast_D24" without the quotes
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
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