Chugach National Forest LiDAR Collection and Delivery

The USDA Forest Service, Chugach National Forest (CNF), has a project for airborne lidar ("light radar" or light detection and ranging) collection and product delivery for two areas on the Chugach National Forest. The primary goals of this project are to provide high accuracy lidar to enhance project planning and implementation and to provide engineering and hydrology specialists more information for on-the-ground stream restoration project planning. In addition, these data may be used by researchers and scientists to characterize vegetation type and structure as it currently exists on the landscape and to provide a detailed, accurate, and precise benchmark for future change detection work. The data products specified herein may also be used for vegetation mapping, hydrologic feature delineation, and landcover characterization applications including a canopy height model, understory vegetation prediction, and other stand metrics. The solicitation package will be listed July 21, 2015 and will close August 18, 2015 at 10:00 AM.