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Table 1 Some relevant USGS NGP products and end-user egress statistics

From: A guide to creating an effective big data management framework

  

Files

Size

Topographic maps

US Topographic Maps

  

 Current

65,240

3.0 TB

 Historical

162,067

4.0 TB

 Total

227,307

7.0 TB

Historical Topographic Map Collection (HTMC)

  

PDF

372,515

2.0 TB

GeoTIFF

183,113

1.5 TB

3D elevation program (3DEP)

Lidar Point Cloud (LPC)

  

Total

–

259 TB

Digital elevation model (DEM)—current

  

 2 arc-second

1,486

5.0 GB

 1 arc-second

11,536

121.6 GB

 1/3 arc-second

4,414

457.3 GB

 1 m

160,362

15 TB

Digital elevation model (DEM)—historical

  

 2 arc-second

2,250

5.1 GB

 1 arc-second

17,483

145.6 GB

 1/3 arc-second

8,050

641.6 GB

 1/9 arc-second

8,345

626 GB

 Original Product Resolution (OPR)

–

27 TB

Alaska Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (ifsar)

  

 Digital Elevation Model (DEM)

–

415 GB

 Digital Surface Model (DSM)

–

249 GB

 Orthorectified Radar Image (ORI)

–

3.96 TB

Base Maps

  

 US Topo with Imagery Tile Cache

–

1.57 TB

 USGS Hydro Cache

–

815 MB

 USGS Imagery Only Cache

–

1.21 TB

 USGS Shaded Relief Only Cache

–

276 GB

 USGS US Topo Only Cache

–

854 GB