Basic Question About Viewing SlopeShade Maps
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2020 12:50 am
To begin with I am amazed at the scope of this application. In 50 years of programming I have never seen so impressive an open-source application.
My needs are extremely simple. However, being a geologist/programmer, I can't find my way through so complex an application. My understanding of this field is just too superficial. All I want to do is to study the history of 49er mining activity hidden under the cover of the Klamath Mountain's dense vegetation. I want to use the USGS 3DEP's forthcoming "QL1 Lidar for the Carr, Hirz, and Delta Fire Impacted Watersheds" cloud data (las or laz) with a slopeshade map. The features I want to see are linear with a width of a meter or less. Here is a perfect example of what i want to do: https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DO ... 536844.pdf.
Could some kind soul guide me through this either in CloudCompare or some other application? I'm pretty sure my use of this technique will lead others whom I work with to learn more about lidar.
Perhaps this is asking too much. If it is, I apologize.
Thank you
My needs are extremely simple. However, being a geologist/programmer, I can't find my way through so complex an application. My understanding of this field is just too superficial. All I want to do is to study the history of 49er mining activity hidden under the cover of the Klamath Mountain's dense vegetation. I want to use the USGS 3DEP's forthcoming "QL1 Lidar for the Carr, Hirz, and Delta Fire Impacted Watersheds" cloud data (las or laz) with a slopeshade map. The features I want to see are linear with a width of a meter or less. Here is a perfect example of what i want to do: https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DO ... 536844.pdf.
Could some kind soul guide me through this either in CloudCompare or some other application? I'm pretty sure my use of this technique will lead others whom I work with to learn more about lidar.
Perhaps this is asking too much. If it is, I apologize.
Thank you