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Lower Rio Puerco 2005 aerial LiDAR survey data

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2005-04
End Date
2005-07

Citation

Griffin, E.R., 2016, Lower Rio Puerco geospatial data, 1935 – 2014: U.S. Geological Survey data release, http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F72N50CM.

Summary

An aerial LiDAR survey of the lower Rio Puerco was conducted in April and July 2005 by Spectrum Mapping, LLC, under contract with the USGS (Contract #14040050). The surveyed reach extends from the NM Highway 6 crossing 55 km downvalley to the old Highway 85 bridge near the USGS streamgage near Bernardo, NM. Survey procedures, equipment and products are described in the Rio Puerco Project Report (Spectrum Mapping, LLC, Aug. 1, 2005), provided with this data set. The survey data include breaklines (shapefiles) used to process the elevation data, bare-earth Digital Terrain Models (DTMs) with 2-m cell size in the ArcGrid format, LAS-formatted files, and the original random xyz data. Results from analyses using these data were published [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Eleanor R Griffin
Originator :
Spectrum Mapping, LLC
Metadata Contact :
FORT Metadata Specialist
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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Purpose

The 2005 aerial LiDAR survey was conducted to collect baseline topographic data in a 55-km arroyo segment following the 2003 aerial spraying of an herbicide for saltcedar control in a 12-km arroyo segment upstream. Our objective was to monitor future geomorphic change in this reach in order to be able to assess the effects of this disturbance and future interactions of woody vegetation with flow and sediment transport.

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