Survey of Skyline Drive Area, Cañon City, Colorado, April 2021

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This Unoccupied Aerial Vehicle (UAV) survey was flown to provide geology field camp students with a high-resolution orthomosaic, Digital Elevation Model (DEM), and Point Cloud of the Skyline Drive area near Cañon City, Colorado. The area contains folded Cretaceous strata in the Frontal Range. The site contains dinosaurs tracks in the Morrison Formation. The area contains hiking trails popular with residents and tourists.

opentopoID: OTDS.062021.32613.1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5069/G9SF2TDM
Platform: Structure from Motion / Photogrammetry
Data Format: Point Cloud, Raster
Dataset Acknowledgement: The College of Arts and Sciences of Oklahoma State University funded this survey.
Dataset Citation: Wethington, C., Weilert, L., Laó-Dávila, D.,Knapp, J.H, Puckette, J.O., Barnes, C. (2021). Survey of Skyline Drive Area, Cañon City, Colorado, April 2021. Distributed by OpenTopography. https://doi.org/10.5069/G9SF2TDM. Accessed: 2025-06-27
Survey Date: 04/02/2021
Survey Area: 0.42 km2
Publication Date: 06/24/2021
Total Number of Points: 101,555,440 pts
Point Density: 243.29 pts/m2
Coordinates System:
Horizontal: WGS 84 / UTM zone 13N [EPSG: 32613]

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    Point Cloud
  File Name Size Points Area (m2) Density  
1     Sky Line Drive_PointCloud_EPSG32613.laz     1003.87 MB     101,555,440     417,428     243.29         File Metadata    
SpatialReference: 
COMPD_CS["unknown",PROJCS["WGS 84 / UTM zone 13N",GEOGCS["WGS 84",DATUM["WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS 84",6378137,298.257223563,AUTHORITY["EPSG","7030"]],TOWGS84[0,0,0,0,0,0,0],AUTHORITY["EPSG","6326"]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433],AUTHORITY["EPSG","4326"]],PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"],PARAMETER["latitude_of_origin",0],PARAMETER["central_meridian",-105],PARAMETER["scale_factor",0.9996],PARAMETER["false_easting",500000],PARAMETER["false_northing",0],UNIT["metre",1,AUTHORITY["EPSG","9001"]],AUTHORITY["EPSG","32613"]],VERT_CS["unknown",VERT_DATUM["unknown",2005],UNIT["metre",1.0,AUTHORITY["EPSG","9001"]],AXIS["Up",UP]]]

Geographic Coordinates (Lat, Lon, Elevation) - EPSG:4326
North-East (Lat, Lon, Elevation): (38.46495738, -105.2475331, 1822.602)
South-West (Lat, Lon, Elevation): (38.45593088, -105.2538649, 1702.982)

Projected Coordinates (X, Y) - EPSG:32613
North-East (X, Y): (478402.488, 4257434.079)
South-West (X, Y): (477852.783, 4256433.978)

Classifications:
Class 0 (Created, never classified)101,555,440
    Raster Data
  File Name Size Resolution Dimensions Layer Type  
1     Skyline Drive_DEM_Export_EPSG32613.tif     289.84 MB     0.07 meter     8918 x 17431                 File Metadata    
SpatialReference 
PROJCS["WGS 84 / UTM zone 13N",     GEOGCS["WGS 84",         DATUM["WGS_1984",             SPHEROID["WGS 84",6378137,298.257223563,                 AUTHORITY["EPSG","7030"]],             TOWGS84[0,0,0,0,0,0,0],             AUTHORITY["EPSG","6326"]],         PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],         UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433],         AUTHORITY["EPSG","4326"]],     PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"],     PARAMETER["latitude_of_origin",0],     PARAMETER["central_meridian",-105],     PARAMETER["scale_factor",0.9996],     PARAMETER["false_easting",500000],     PARAMETER["false_northing",0],     UNIT["metre",1,         AUTHORITY["EPSG","9001"]],     AUTHORITY["EPSG","32613"]]

Geographic Coordinates (Lat, Lon) - EPSG:4326
North-East (Lat, Lon): (38.46598219188296, -105.24727765151663)
South-West (Lat, Lon): (38.45468597445518, -105.25457863576158)

Projected Coordinates (X, Y) - EPSG:32613
North-East (X, Y): (478427.762, 4257547.726)
South-West (X, Y): (477787.367, 4256296.021)
2     Skyline Drive_Ortho_Export_EPSG32613.tif     890.35 MB     0.04 meter     15506 x 28041                 File Metadata    
SpatialReference 
PROJCS["WGS 84 / UTM zone 13N",     GEOGCS["WGS 84",         DATUM["WGS_1984",             SPHEROID["WGS 84",6378137,298.257223563,                 AUTHORITY["EPSG","7030"]],             TOWGS84[0,0,0,0,0,0,0],             AUTHORITY["EPSG","6326"]],         PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],         UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433],         AUTHORITY["EPSG","4326"]],     PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"],     PARAMETER["latitude_of_origin",0],     PARAMETER["central_meridian",-105],     PARAMETER["scale_factor",0.9996],     PARAMETER["false_easting",500000],     PARAMETER["false_northing",0],     UNIT["metre",1,         AUTHORITY["EPSG","9001"]],     AUTHORITY["EPSG","32613"]]

Geographic Coordinates (Lat, Lon) - EPSG:4326
North-East (Lat, Lon): (38.464988071236704, -105.24753266981881)
South-West (Lat, Lon): (38.455901227332795, -105.25388244617129)

Projected Coordinates (X, Y) - EPSG:32613
North-East (X, Y): (478405.218, 4257437.477)
South-West (X, Y): (477848.483, 4256430.699)
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