High-Resolution Lidar Images of Rivers and Deltas

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...

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

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

Pass through link to the artists website:

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

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

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).

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

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.

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

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