[HN Gopher] High-Resolution Lidar Images of Rivers and Deltas
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       High-Resolution Lidar Images of Rivers and Deltas
        
       Author : CharlesW
       Score  : 57 points
       Date   : 2023-09-29 17:44 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (kottke.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (kottke.org)
        
       | ge96 wrote:
       | looks nice, I could see them getting printed as a nice art piece
        
       | JorgeGT wrote:
       | Astonishingly, Harold Fisk did this in 1944 without any LiDAR:
       | https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maps-of-the-lower-...
        
       | placesalt wrote:
       | From the most biblically-named government department comes a
       | biblical amount of data:
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       | https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/bathymetry/
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       | See the topo-bathy lidar datasets (or, turn on DEMs for in-
       | browser viewing).
        
       | taftster wrote:
       | Pass through link to the artists website:
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       | https://dancoecarto.com/4k-rivers
        
         | edrxty wrote:
         | Which links to his Flikr where you can download a zip with all
         | 90
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         | https://www.flickr.com/photos/165735975@N07/sets/72177720300...
        
       | tony_cannistra wrote:
       | 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.
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       | [0]: https://dancoecarto.com/tutorials
        
       | NikkiA wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | taftster wrote:
       | 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.
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       | [1] https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjzXx4k
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       | [2] https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjzXx4f
        
       | doodlebugging wrote:
       | 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
        
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