High-Resolution Lidar Images of Rivers and Deltas

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• mikewarot 589 days ago
  Oooh.... this is fun.... I've started exploring the available USGS Lidar data.[1] I've used lastools[2] (specifically, lasview) to render the .laz files. I've started a flickr album of the resulting images[3] (so far, Navy Pier in Chicago, and Wilson Hall at FermiLab, they're both places I've been near home)

  [1] https://apps.nationalmap.gov/lidar-explorer/#/

  [2] https://github.com/LAStools/LAStools

  [3] https://www.flickr.com/photos/---mike---/albums/721777203116...
• JorgeGT 590 days ago
  Astonishingly, Harold Fisk did this in 1944 without any LiDAR: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maps-of-the-lower-...
• tony_cannistra 590 days ago
  my partner has taken to using Daniel Coe's methods [0] to make her own maps like these, we have a few on the wall in our house! They are very cool.

  [0]: https://dancoecarto.com/tutorials
• taftster 590 days ago
  Pass through link to the artists website:

  https://dancoecarto.com/4k-rivers

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  • edrxty 590 days ago
    Which links to his Flikr where you can download a zip with all 90

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/165735975@N07/sets/72177720300...

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    • mc32 590 days ago
      Since he seems to gravitate to meandering rivers, he could have done the Maeander river itself. Nice work though.
• taftster 590 days ago
  I was hoping to find the names of the rivers for each photo. It's on the Flickr pages linked [1][2] from the article and the artist's site.

  [1] https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjzXx4k

  [2] https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjzXx4f
• placesalt 590 days ago
  From the most biblically-named government department comes a biblical amount of data:

  https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/bathymetry/

  See the topo-bathy lidar datasets (or, turn on DEMs for in-browser viewing).
• doodlebugging 590 days ago
  You see where I am now and everywhere I've ever been. I cannot hide. I can only hope that the change inevitable in my system takes me somewhere interesting. - The River
• NikkiA 590 days ago
  It's like the river itself is exhibiting fluid dynamics on the macro scale as well as the micro scale. Fractalised fluid dynamics, you might say. Beautiful.
• BreadPants 590 days ago
  Seems to support Randall Carlson's remarks of under set rivers.
• ge96 590 days ago
  looks nice, I could see them getting printed as a nice art piece