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Review Canvas

• Course mechanics
• Syllabus
• Attendance and late assignment policies

Tech reqs 🔭

• ArcGIS Pro.
• Lab computers have all required software.
• You can work outside of the lab! You were sent an invitation to join our org and install software...

OS reqs 💣

• No Windows OS?
  • Get a virtual PC
    • Shadow.tech 💯😎💰
    • Parallels Desktop 💰🙂
    • Virtual Den👌🤷

Make maps

• 25+ years designing maps for print and web
• outrageGIS.com

do workshops

• to make (and then test) our maps.

A map is

• An artistic rendering of space (x, y, z, t).
• A measurement of our environment.
• A tool for remembering the past and navigating the unknown.

GEO409 & NRES355

• Had more people and time.
• NRES355 meets six hours a week!

Pine Mountain

• We started with a recreation resource analysis, but...
• embrace pivots.

Then lidar is widely available

The idea

• Kentucky’s extensive archive of lidar point clouds (which shows topographic relief and above-ground features in unprecedented detail) can identify and analyze flood-prone infrastructure before conducting field work.

Lidar

• LIght Detection And Ranging
• Point cloud is densely sampled features using infrared lasers
• New frontier in mapping and analysis

Lidar example

• Aerial lidar for entire state
• Ground and above-ground features

Lidar data

• Massive
• >20 TB for first edition
• State divided into 46,105 tiles

Technologies and methods

• Using lidar and its derivatives (e.g., DEMs) let's conduct field work before going into the field.

Bridges

• Can we find (private) bridges in our lidar data and measure their height above the stream?

Inundation

• Can we find show infrastructure impacted by a certain level of flooding with a height above river analysis?

Terrain modification

• Can we analyze the impact of widespread terrain modification from surface mining?

Uncertainty

• We don't know how well these methods will work.
• But...
• Make a web page publicizing the results of the analysis.

Community

Where will we work?

• and will we be strangers?
• Task 1 on Canvas.