Please join us for the webinar: Quantifying Geomorphic Change Using Drone-based Lidar on Thursday, October 27 at 2:00 PM Eastern.
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Presented By/Author: Harrison Martin, Indiana University
Abstract: Lidar data have revolutionized the geosciences by allowing high-resolution (< 1-5 m), repeat data that can resolve both vegetation and bare-earth elevations. These lidar data are usually collected by plane-based (airborne; tens of km2 with ~10 points/m2) or ground-based (terrestrial; tens of m2 with thousands of points/m2) instruments. Here, we overview the use of a third, intermediate technique: drone-based lidar (~km2, with ~100 points/m2). We will explain and illustrate this novel method and how it differs from existing methods for measuring topography. We will illustrate the power that drone-based lidar offers geoscientists through case examples from our own research into landscape dynamics: When a tree falls in a forest, can a drone detect it? How does a catastrophic dam failure impact downstream river morphology? What can we learn about river mechanics with a high spatial-temporal dataset of an actively migrating river meander? We will summarize the ways that we have benefitted from this rapid-response, low-cost, and high-resolution imaging technique as applied to our research on hillslopes, natural disasters, and river geomorphology.
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