Sands of LIFE LiDAR Survey
Sands of LIFE is a major conservation project to rejuvenate 2400 ha of sand dunes across Wales, by reprofiling dunes, creating bare sand to promote mobility, removing scrub, and other actions.
The Sands of LIFE project commissioned a LiDAR survey of sand dune areas both before and after completion of large-scale sand dune restoration works. The aim was to create an accurate and up-to-date baseline picture of the dune morphology and determine geomorphological changes and sand movement away from the footprint of interventions.
Sands of LIFE specified the provision of aerial LiDAR across the entire area of 10 project sites on the Welsh Coast, split over four Special Areas of Conservation (SACs)
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- NRW_DS161328
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- Sands of Life Post Intervention LIDAR DSM.lyr
- Sands of Life Post Intervention LIDAR DTM.lyr
- Sands of Life LIDAR DTM.lyr
- Sands of Life LIDAR DSM.lyr
- Sands of Life LIDAR DSM - November 2020.lyr
- Sands of Life LIDAR - Orthophotography.lyr
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Baseline flights were flown across the project sites between July 2019 and January 2020 and successfully captured LiDAR data at eight points per meter and to the following accuracies: Vertical RMSE:10cm, Horizontal RMSE:35cm. The survey work was repeated in December 2023, with a matching set of post-intervention LiDAR data captured.
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Clay J, Thomas M, Chisholm N. 2024. Sands of LIFE LiDAR survey report. NRW Evidence Report No: 832, 29 pp, Natural Resources Wales, Bangor
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- 2025-01-14
Temporal Extent
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- 2019-07-01
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- 2023-12-31
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- Environment
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- Wales (WLS)
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NRW Evidence Report in PDF or MS Word Format
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- Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
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This dataset has not been assessed for conformance to the referenced INSPIRE regulation.
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Baseline flights were flown across the project sites between July 2019 and January 2020 and successfully captured LiDAR data at eight points per meter and to the following accuracies: Vertical RMSE:10cm, Horizontal RMSE:35cm. The survey work was repeated in December 2023, with a matching set of post-intervention LiDAR data captured.
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- 2008-06-01
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- sand dune management
- Newborough
- Aberffraw
- light detection and ranging (LIDAR)
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- Date (Publication)
- 2026-03-04
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There are no access restrictions on this data. NRW may release, publish or disseminate it freely.
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Data may be re-used under the terms of the Open Government Licence providing it is done so, acknowledging both the source and NRW's copyright. It is the recipient's responsibility to ensure the data is fit for the intended purpose.
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Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and Database Right. All rights Reserved.
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- Open Government Licence