Making Spatial Decisions Using GIS and Lidar: A Workbook

by Kathryn Keranen, Robert Kolvoord

Overview

The third book in the Making Spatial Decisions series, Making Spatial Decisions Using GIS and Lidar, focuses on scenario-based problem solving using an integrated workflow in ArcGIS® for Desktop. The scenarios in Making Spatial Decisions Using GIS and Lidar feature lidar as the primary data source and lidar-related analysis as the primary skill focus. Lidar is a powerful, and increasingly popular, data source used to create elevation and terrain models with very high accuracy.

Students and self-learners can use the exercises in this book to develop their GIS skills. Downloadable data and access to a 180-day trial of ArcGIS are available on the Esri Press Book Resources web page, esripress.esri.com/bookresources. Instructor resources are available by request.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781589484290
Publisher:	Esri Press
Publication date:	10/14/2015
Series:	Making Spatial Decisions , #3
Edition description:	Workbook
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kathryn Keranen is an instructor in geographic science at James Madison Universityand the cofounder of the award-winning Geospatial Semester.

Robert Kolvoord serves as dean of the College of Integrated Science and Engineering and as a professor of integrated science and technology at James Madison University. With Kathryn Keranen, he is a cofounder of the Geospatial Semester. Kolvoord also researches the impact of geospatial technologies on the spatial thinking skills of students.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Module 1: Basic lidar techniques
Project 1: Baltimore, Maryland
Project 2: San Francisco, California
Project 3: On your own

Module 2: 2D and 3D models (raster and terrain)
Project 1: Baltimore, Maryland
Project 2: San Francisco, California
Project 3: On your own

Module 3: Volumetric analysis and shadow maps
Project 1: Baltimore, Maryland
Project 2: San Francisco, California
Project 3: On your own

Module 4: Visibility analysis comparison
Project 1: Baltimore, Maryland
Project 2: San Francisco, California
Project 3: On your own

Module 5: Surging seas
Project 1: Baltimore, Maryland
Project 2: San Francisco, California
Project 3: On your own

Module 6: Corrected 3D campus modeling
Project 1: James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia
Project 2: University of San Francisco, California
Project 3: On your own


Module 7: Location of solar panels
Project 1: James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virgina
Project 2: University of San Francisco, California
Project 3: On your own

Module 8: Shoreline change after Hurricane Sandy
Project 1: Deal, New Jersey
Project 2: Pelham Manor, New York
Project 3: On your own

Module 9: Forest vegetation height
Project 1: George Washington National Forest, Virginia
Project 2: Michaux State Forest, Pennsylvania
Project 3: On your own

Module 10: Depressional wetland delineation from lidar
Project 1: Wakulla, Florida
Project 2: Pasco County, Florida
Project 3: On your own

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