Vertical Differencing [ Video Tutorial ]

Christina River Basin Critical Zone Observatory April 2010 Lidar Survey
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Overview

High-resolution Lidar data (average first-return point density of 10 points m2 and 2-4 cm vertical accuracy) were obtained by NCALM for 121 km2 of the Christina River Basin Critical Zone Observatory (CRB-CZO) during both leaf-off (April 2010) and leaf-on (July 2010; see dataset CRB-10-Jul) periods. Data acquisition, ground-truthing, vegetation surveys and processing were funded and coordinated by NSF Award EAR-0922307 (PI. Qinghua Guo) to collect similar data at all six CZOs for a variety of cross-site analyses, including calibration of algorithms to extract vegetation characteristics from the LIDAR point cloud data. The CRB-CZO is particularly interested in using this LIDAR dataset for high-resolution analyses of stream channel and floodplain geomorphology.


Publications associated with this dataset can be found at NCALM's Data Tracking Center

Reference Dataset
Total points: pts
Survey Area: km2
Point Density: pts/m2
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Total points: pts
Survey Area: km2
Point Density: pts/m2
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1. Vertical Differencing Datasets and Coordinate System  


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Data Selection Coordinates:       Manually enter selection coordinates (in the horizontal coordinate system listed above)  
  Choose Return Classification    
  Ground

2. DEM Generation (TIN)  

  Grid Resolution (Default = 1.0 meter)
  Max. triangle size (Default 50 units)

3. Define a minimum level of detection (optional)  

  User-defined Minimum Level of Detection

4. Visualization  

  Generate additional hillshade images from DEMs for reference and compare datasets.

Altitude of the light:  (in range: [0-90] degrees)
Azimuth of the light:  (in range: [0-360] degrees)

Job Description

These options allow users to describe and keep track of their jobs. Information entered below is recorded along with other job parameters in your personal lidar job archive accessed via myOpenTopo (available only to registered OpenTopography users).

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