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LiDAR and elevation data for Argentina

Partial open LiDAR Openly licensed LiDAR exists, but only for limited areas such as states, provinces, cities or project sites.

Argentina’s Instituto Geográfico Nacional distributes 5 m photogrammetric digital elevation models with sub-metre vertical accuracy, free of charge, together with 0.5 m models from drone surveys and the 30 m MDE-Ar; no national lidar programme was found.

Best open resolution
5 m
Open LiDAR coverage
–
Datasets
1 · 1 open · 1 free
Region
South America
Last reviewed

Datasets 1

Free is not the same as open. Cost is what you pay to get the data; the licence says what you may do with it. How cost and licence are defined

  • MDE/MDT 5 m (aerial photogrammetry) (opens in a new tab)

    Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN Argentina)

    Cost Free Licence Open
    • DTM
    • DSM
    Resolution
    5 m
    Point density
    –
    Vertical accuracy
    Sub-metre
    Acquired
    –
    Coverage
    Areas flown with the UltraCamXp aerial programme; plus 0.5 m UAV-derived models for selected sites
    Licence
    Free distribution (“libre y gratuita”); IGN data published under CC BY 4.0
    Access
    Direct download
    Formats
    GeoTIFF
    Link check
    Link OK (HTTP 200),

Elsewhere in South America