LiDAR Potential in Kansas: A Land Planning and Emergency Management and Response Perspective

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LiDAR Potential in Kansas A Land Planning and
Emergency Management and Response Perspective

• Research Sponsors
• NSF EPSCoR
• K-State Targeted Excellence
• Presented by
• Eric A. Bernard, RLA, ASLA
• David Nathaniel Kersey, MLA Candidate

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LiDAR Acquisition Project 2006

• 15 Partners
• Led by USGS Ingrid Landgraf
• K-State
• Wildcat Creek Watershed
• Konza Prairie

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LiDAR Raw Data

• Raw Data LiDAR LAS Points All Returns 3D Points
  /- 1,000,000 per km2
• Capital Building Topeka, KS

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LiDAR Landscape Models

• Konza Prairie LTER Site
• LiDAR Raw Data Processed with LiDAR Explorer 2.0
• ArcScene 9.2 TIN LAS All Returns
  Illustrating Bare Earth, Vegetation and Structures

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LiDAR Landscape Models

• Konza Prairie LTER Site
• LiDAR Raw Data Processed with LiDAR Explorer 2.0
• NOTE
• Lagoons, Utility Poles
• ArcScene 9.2 TIN LAS All Returns
  Illustrating Bare Earth, Vegetation and Structures

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LiDAR Structures/Vegetation

• LiDAR Raw Data Processed with LiDAR Explorer 2.0
• K-State Campus
• NOTE
• Filter Algorithms for Extracting different
  Landscape Features
• ArcScene 9.2 TIN LAS All Returns
  Illustrating Bare Earth, Vegetation and Structures

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LiDAR Structures

• Roof TIN Surfaces
• ArcScene 9.2 TIN LiDAR Explorer 2.0 Filter
  for Buildings on LAS data using Building Polygon
  Boundary for Selection of Points and TIN Boundary

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LiDAR Floodplain Models

• 3D River-Stream Channel and Floodplain

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LiDAR Floodplain Models

• 3D River-Stream Channel and Floodplain

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LiDAR Flood Prediction Models

• 3D River-Stream Channel and Floodplain

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LiDAR Flood Prediction Models
Channel Profiles Kansas River
Manhattan, KS NED 30m NED 10 m
LiDAR

• 3D River-Stream Channel and Floodplain

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LiDAR Input to Map2Map

• Map2Map Flood Inundation Model
• Inputs
• LiDAR data
• Nexrad Doppler Rainfall Stream Gauge data
• Hydro Data Model

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LiDAR Aerosol Models

• Aerosol Plume Power Plant Lawrence, KS
• LiDAR LAS Data Processed with LiDAR Explorer 2.0
• NOTE
• Filter Algorithms for Extracting different
  Features
• ArcScene 9.2 TIN LAS All Returns
  Illustrating Bare Earth, Vegetation and Structures

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Contact

• Eric A. Bernard, RLA, ASLA
• Associate Professor
• Department of Landscape Architecture
• Regional and Community Planning
• Kansas State University
• 785-532-3944
• 785-532-6722 fax
• ebernard_at_ksu.edu
• www.growe.ksu.edu
• www.gis.ksu.edu/ogallala
• www.k-state.edu/ecoforecasting/