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Topographic digital surface model (DSM) for Whiskeytown Lake and surrounding area, 2019-06-03

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2019-06-03
End Date
2019-06-03

Citation

Logan, J.B., Dartnell, P., East, A.E., and Ritchie, A.C., 2020, Bathymetry, topography and orthomosaic imagery for Whiskeytown Lake, northern California (ver. 2.0, July 2021): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9HEDYNT.

Summary

This portion of the data release presents a digital surface model (DSM) and hillshade of Whiskeytown Lake and the surrounding area derived from Structure from Motion (SfM) processing of aerial imagery acquired on 2019-06-03. Unlike a digital elevation model (DEM), the DSM represents the elevation of the highest object within the bounds of a cell. Vegetation, buildings and other objects have not been removed from the data. In addition, data artifacts resulting from noise and vegetation in the original imagery have not been removed. However, in unvegetated areas such as reservoir shorelines and deltas, the DSM is equivalent to a DEM because it represents the ground surface elevation. The raw imagery used to create this DSM was acquired [...]

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Whiskeytown_2019-06-03_DSM_25cm_browse.png
“Color shaded relief map of 2019-06-03 DSM”
thumbnail 868.83 KB image/png
Whiskeytown_2019-06-03_DSM_25cm.tif
“Digital Surface Model (DSM), 25cm resolution, 2019-06-03”
1.03 GB image/geotiff
Whiskeytown_2019-06-03_DSM_25cm_hll.tif
“Hillshade of digital surface model (DSM), 25 cm resolution, 2019-06-03”
420.51 MB image/geotiff

Purpose

This digital surface model (DSM) was created to help evaluate the post-fire conditions on the exposed margins of Whiskeytown Lake as well as the exposed, unvegetated portions of the surrounding watersheds. It is intended for use by scientists, managers, and the general public. The DSM can be used with geographic information systems (GIS) software for research purposes.

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