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The 3DEP Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) facilitates partnering with the USGS and other Federal agencies to acquire high-quality 3D elevation data for the nation. Follow these guidelines to apply.

3D Elevation Program lidar in dark blue shown over a portion of Chicago, Illinois. 

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3DEP lidar rendering of Millsite Reservoir near Millsite State Park, Utah. 

Bar graphs comparing three partner funding scenarios for completing nationwide 3D Elevation Program data acquisition by 2023. 

The USGS Earth Mapping Resources Initiative and USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP), Department of Energy Geothermal Technologies Office, Natural Resources Conservation Services, and Bureau of Land Management have partnered to conduct airborne geophysical and 3DEP lidar surveys over parts of Nevada and California to collect information on undiscovered geothermal, criti

Geiger mode 3DEP lidar point cloud over Chicago, IL from 3DEP Project USGS Lidar Point Cloud IL 4County Cook 2017

The USGS 3DEP DEM viewer may be accessed at: https://apps.nationalmap.gov/3depdem

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Bar graph showing total estimated program cost and funding gap to complete nationwide 3D Elevation Program data acquisition by 2023

This is a 3DEP lidar digital rendering of Grand Teton National Park.

This is a geiger mode lidar image colored by elevation over Cook County, Illinois

Lidar point cloud image of USGS headquarters building in Reston, VA, shaded by RGB values from orthophotos

Lidar point cloud image of USGS headquarters building in Reston, VA, shaded by elevation

"Old Hickory" is a prospect deposit site discovered in 1988 in the Appalachian Highlands of Virginia.  DEM Shows the Stoney Creek area, with 5x vertical exaggeration.

Figure 3: Zooming in and rotating scene in 3D from figure 2. Points coloer by laser intensity (blue = low intensity, red = high intensity).

Figure 2: Zooming in to red rectangle A from figure 1. Points colored by laser intensity (blue = low intensity, red = high intensity).

An oblique perspective of Alaska's Denali Mountain visualized by 3D Elevation Program lidar data. 

This image shows a lidar flight done in July 2018 of the Kīlauea volcano after the collapse of the caldera 

3D rendering of Mesa County, Colorado landslide from 3DEP lidar. Lidar point cloud with color from imagery.

3D rendering of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, from 3DEP DEMs

This image is a lidar point cloud of the Statue of Liberty in New York with a blue to red color ramp symbology with blue representing low elevation, and red representing high elevation

A Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of a section of Bitterroot National Forest.