Los Angeles, California | January 30, 2025 - NV5, the world’s leading provider of geospatial software and services, today announced that lidar-derived data of the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire burn areas are now freely available to the public courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) at 2025 Post-Wildfire Lidar Data for Los Angeles, CA. The data is a .5 meter Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and Digital Surface Model (DSM). ALERTCalifornia sponsored the lidar data acquisition.
The provisional lidar data was collected January 21- January 22, 2025, and can be used to analyze the devastating fires’ impact and provide insights for damage assessment, which is critical for recovery and rebuilding efforts, as well as for better understanding potential hazards due to debris from the fire.
"The Palisades and Eaton fires not only devastated and tore apart the lives, homes, businesses and neighborhoods of thousands of Angelenos, they have also shown the world that cities, counties and jurisdictions across the globe can be hit with devastating fires in our warming world. We are pleased to provide the community with the lidar data as it is essential to developing effective and time-critical plans for wildfire prevention, protection, mitigation, response and recovery."-Neal Driscoll, Principal Investigator, UC San Diego ALERTCalifornia