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LiDAR and elevation data for Netherlands

National open LiDAR Openly licensed LiDAR covers about 70% or more of the land area.

The Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (AHN) provides repeated nationwide airborne LiDAR coverage of the Netherlands as a classified point cloud and 0.5 m terrain and surface models. AHN4 (2020–2022) is complete, AHN5 acquisition is under way and the first AHN6 block was released in October 2025; all AHN data are published as open data without restrictions.

Best open resolution
0.5 m
Open LiDAR coverage
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Datasets
1 · 1 open · 1 free
Region
Europe
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

  • Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (AHN) (opens in a new tab)

    Rijkswaterstaat and the Dutch water authorities (Het Waterschapshuis)

    Cost Free Licence Open
    • Point cloud
    • DTM
    • DSM
    Resolution
    0.5 m
    Point density
    10 pts/m²
    Vertical accuracy
    5 cm systematic and 5 cm stochastic error per point (AHN2–AHN4)
    Acquired
    1996–2026 (AHN1–AHN6)
    Coverage
    Entire European Netherlands, repeated in epochs
    Licence
    Open data without restrictions (CC0 1.0)
    Access
    Direct download
    Formats
    LAZ, GeoTIFF
    Link check
    Link OK (HTTP 200),

Elsewhere in Europe