Just another shot of our digital surface model of the forest. This time, I rendered it with all of the trees at base elevation 0 (zero), placed the orthographic camera at height 150, so our 16-bit range we’re rendering to should scale 0-150 feet to 0-65535 values, giving us a precision of 0.002 feet. The original LiDAR data has a precision of 0.01 feet, so … Continue reading Digital Surface Model– a whole forest and more part Deux
Warning. What follows is somewhat informed, but I’m no geologist. I just play one on wordpress. Understanding the basic underlying geology and associated topography plus site history helps us achieve a basic understanding of a sites ecological potential. At the most basic level, we expect different wildlife and vegetation dynamics in a floodplain vs. a mountain ridge. Classification of digital elevation models can be done … Continue reading Topographic Position Index and Ecological Land Type (warning completely unrefined not quite Geologic dribble– with bad maps 🙂 …)
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