Vertical Differencing [ Video Tutorial ]

Sierra National Forest, CA: Soil Formation and Transport
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Overview

NCALM Seed. PI: Arjun Heimsath, Dartmouth College. The survey area includes four polygons northeast of Fresno, California with the closest area being 21 kilometers northeast of Fresno and the furthest area being 83 kilometers northeast of Fresno. The total survey area is approximately 50 square kilometers. The data were collected to investigate the soil formation and transport in the southern Sierra Nevada, California.


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  

Select a dataset for vertical differencing:
  Reference dataset:
  Compare dataset:  
Dataset:
Survey Date:
Horizontal Coordinates:
Vertical Coordinates:
Units:
Data Selection Coordinates (Select an area on map)
  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. Error handling (optional)  

  Estimate mean uncertainty using geostatistical approach.  
  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 & Notification

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