High-Resolution Lidar Images of Rivers and Deltas

[CharlesW]

https://kottke.org/23/09/stunning-high-resolution-lidar-images-of-rivers-deltas

[mikewarot]

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]

Astonishingly, Harold Fisk did this in 1944 without any LiDAR: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maps-of-the-lower-...

[tony_cannistra]

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]

Pass through link to the artists website:

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

[edrxty → taftster]

Which links to his Flikr where you can download a zip with all 90

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

[mc32 → edrxty]

Since he seems to gravitate to meandering rivers, he could have done the Maeander river itself. Nice work though.

[taftster]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Seems to support Randall Carlson's remarks of under set rivers.

[ge96]

looks nice, I could see them getting printed as a nice art piece