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LiDAR and elevation data for South Africa

Restricted LiDAR exists but is not openly licensed: it is sold, released on request, or limited to non-commercial use.

The City of Cape Town holds airborne LiDAR (2018–2019 flights) and publishes a 5 m bare-earth Ground Level Map DEM through image services, with file copies supplied on request under a labour tariff; no openly licensed LiDAR was identified at national level. Elsewhere, users rely on global models such as Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (30 m, openly licensed) and FABDEM (non-commercial).

Best open resolution
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Open LiDAR coverage
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Datasets
1 · 0 open · 0 free
Region
Africa
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

  • Ground Level Map 5m DEM (CCT GLM 2019) (opens in a new tab)

    City of Cape Town

    Cost Mixed Licence Not open
    • DTM
    Resolution
    5 m
    Point density
    –
    Vertical accuracy
    30 cm (as published)
    Acquired
    2018–2019
    Coverage
    City of Cape Town metropolitan area; derived from the LiDAR2019B dataset (2018, 2019A and 2019B flights)
    Licence
    City of Cape Town open data terms of use (data provided as is, without an explicit reuse licence); file copies under the Spatial Data Services Tariff
    Access
    On request
    Formats
    Image service (REST/WMS), GeoTIFF on request
    Link check
    Link OK (HTTP 200),

Elsewhere in Africa