Imaging and Analyzing Southern California’s Active Faults with High-Resolution Lidar Topography
October 24 and 25, 2011 @ University of California, Davis
Supported by:
Southern California Earthquake Center, UC Davis KeckCAVES, and OpenTopography
Organizers:
Christopher Crosby, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Mike Oskin, UC Davis
J Ramon Arrowsmith, Arizona State University
Logistics:
Campus Map | SMF to Hallmark Inn | SMF to Hyatt | Visitor Parking | Computer Notes
Course Announcement
Draft Agenda
LECTURES:
- Course Welcome / Intro
- Lidar Introduction
- Lidar Classification
- Lidar Quality
- Creating DEMs from Lidar Point Cloud Data
- Online data sources & OpenTopography
EXERCISES:
Ex 1: Basic visualization of LiDAR Digital Elevation Models using ArcGIS | Video Tutorials
Ex 2: Extracting Information from DEMs in ArcMap | Basic Landscape Morphometry | Video Tutorials
Ex 3: Fault Zone Mapping with Differential Lidar
Ex 4: No tutorial - exploration of OpenTopography web-based tools
Ex 5: LiDAR Viewer Tutorial
Ex 6: No tutorial - KeckCAVES demo
Ex 7: LaDicaoz User Manual | LaDicaoz Movies and Software
SAMPLE DATA:
Ex. 1: Exercise 1 Data
Ex. 7: LaDicaoz Sample Data