- Survey Data Catalogue - accessing the current LiDAR capture programme
- Survey Data Catalogue - ASCII to GeoTiffs
- Survey Data Catalogue - downloading large areas of LiDAR data
- Survey Data Catalogue - Environment Agency data coverage
- Survey Data Catalogue - finding available data in my Area of Interest (AOI)
- Survey Data Catalogue - LiDAR Composite and SurfZone DEM Survey download zip files are no longer available as a Shapefile
- Survey Data Catalogue - LiDAR data metadata
- Survey Data Catalogue - LiDAR data survey schedule
- Survey Data Catalogue - opening and using downloaded LiDAR files
- Survey Data Catalogue - point density considered in the LiDAR programme
- Survey Data Catalogue - projection information
- Survey Data Catalogue - Scottish LiDAR data
- Survey Data Catalogue - vertical accuracy of the LiDAR data
- Survey Data Catalogue - where to view and download metadata for all LiDAR products
- Survey Data Catalogue - where to view LiDAR data
Survey Data Catalogue - opening and using downloaded LiDAR files
Created: 26 July 2018 Updated: 31 January 2023
LiDAR data is a technical dataset and will need specialist Geographic Information System (GIS) software in order to open it.
If you do not already have GIS software then you may wish to consider using QGIS, which is free to download and there is plenty of documentation available on the internet -Download - QGIS Web Site
More information can be found in these external links:
GRASS GIS is built into QGIS and has various tools for working with DEMs - Get to know the GRASS GIS ecosystem
Terrain analysis: QGS Terrain Analysis
3d terrain visualisation in QGIS: Digital Elevation Model (DEM) 3D Visualization in QGIS 3.0
More information including useful links to blogs on how to use LiDAR data can be found here: Remote Sensing & Surveying in the Environment Agency
If you just wish to view images of the data, you can do this via the “preview” feature for each of the LiDAR Composite data layer on the following page Defra Data Services Platform.