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
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 7:LaDiCaoz Tutorial
- Exercise 8: Simple landscape morphometry and stream network delineation
Exercise 6a: LAStools
Exercise 6b: Points2Grid
Exercise 6c: GDAL
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
