USGS 3DEP lidar on AWS (EPT)
Public S3 bucket of 3DEP lidar reorganized as Entwine Point Tiles for direct streaming.
| Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey |
|---|---|
| Coverage | United States
Bounding box (EPSG:4326): -179.2, 17.8, -64.5, 71.4 |
| Licence | LicenseRef-Public-Domain
Publisher's wording: Public domain |
| Themes | lidar-data-sources, point-clouds-lidar-3d |
| Update cadence | Not stated |
| Formats | Not stated |
| Status | active |
| Last verified | 2026-11-05 |
| Notes | PDAL can query by AOI with readers.ept. |
| Recipe | Not stated |
| Related | Not stated |
Access endpoints
| Type | URL | Layer or index | Auth | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
http | https://registry.opendata.aws/usgs-lidar/ | Not stated | none | Not stated |
s3 | | https://usgs.entwine.io/boundaries/resources.geojson | none | Public EPT bucket (no AWS account needed), one resource per project. |
stac | https://usgs-lidar-stac.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ept/catalog.json | Not stated | none | STAC catalog of the EPT resources (listed on the AWS registry page). |