1) West Virginia collected LiDAR data in 2010 over coal fields with a horizontal posting of 1 meter and vertical accuracy of 15 centimeters. 2) The initial area of interest was about 5 million acres covering 33% of the state, and as of November 2010 around 2.5 million acres had been collected. 3) An isolated computing island was built with three high performance computers to process the large LiDAR data files without disruptions.