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Using EarthScope and B4 LiDAR data to analyze Southern California’s active faults
Dec. 3-4, 2009 @
San Diego Supercomputer Center
, UCSD
Sponsors
:
Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)
,
OpenTopography
, and
UNAVCO
Instructors
: Chris Crosby,
San Diego Supercomputer Center
; Ramon Arrowsmith,
Arizona State
; Ken Hudnut,
USGS
Original Course Announcement
Draft Course Agenda
LECTURES:
Science motivations for LiDAR (high resolution topography)
(Arrowsmith)
Introduction to Lidar Technology and Data Collection
(Crosby)
LiDAR sensor and system capabilities and issues
(Hudnut)
Creating DEMs From LiDAR Point Cloud Data
(Crosby/Arrowsmith)
Online LiDAR Data Sources & OT Intro
(Crosby)
Terrestrial Laser Scanning - Moving to true 3D and higher resolution
(Arrowsmith)
EXERCISES:
Exercise 1:
Introduction to LiDAR Point Cloud Data using the Fusion Software Package
Exercise 2:
Basic visualization of LiDAR Digital Elevation Models using ArcGIS
Exercise 3:
Global Mapper and Basic Visualization of LiDAR DEMs
Exercise 4:
Extracting Information from DEMs in ArcMap
Exercise 5:
Downloading, processing, and exploring GeoEarthScope data from OpenTopography
Exercise 6: Using free and/or open source tools to build workflows to manipulate and process LiDAR data:
Exercise 6a:
LAS Tools
Exercise 6b:
Points2Grid
Exercise 6c:
GDAL
Exercise 7:
LaDiCaoz Tutorial
Exercise 8:
Simple landscape morphometry and stream network delineation
DATA:
Data for Exercise 1
Data for Exercises 2, 3 and 4
Data for Exercise 6
Exercise 7:
Wallace Creek
&
Denali Fault
Data for Exercise 8
Quick Terrain Modeler DEMO:
Hector Mine 1999 EQ Data:
HM99-max-slip1.qtt
Hector Mine 1999 EQ Data:
HM99-max-slip2.qtt
Hector Mine 1999 EQ Data:
lavic-lk1.qtc
Hector Mine 1999 EQ Data:
HM99-max-slip2.zip
(ascii point cloud)
Hector Mine 1999 EQ Data:
lavic-lk1.zip
(ascii point cloud)
EarthScope:
San Andreas Burro Flat
(qtc)
EarthScope:
Denali Tok Highway
(qtc)
RELATED DOCUMENTS:
CalTech Seismo Lab lecture:
Fault slip variations, fault geometrical complexity, and constraining ground motions using LiDAR data
(Hudnut)
Reprints -
Glennie_JAG_1-3_147-157.pdf
Reprints -
Hudnut_etal-b_SSA00934.pdf
Reprints -
Shan_etal_2007_GRL.pdf
Group Photo: