LiDAR Visualization of Willamette River’s History

December 5, 2015
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LiDAR visualization of the Willamette River's historical paths over 15,000 years.
Daniel Coe at DOGAMI (Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries) has created a beautiful image of the Willamette River by using lidar to show the historical paths of the Willamette River in Oregon, spanning 15,000 years.

The hand drawn version of the lower Mississippi by Harold Fisk dates back to the 1940’s when he was commissioned by the Mississippi River Commission to map out the whole Lower Mississippi Valley. He generated these meticulous and beautiful maps of slow, snaky riverine progressions
Hand-drawn map illustrating the historical paths of the Lower Mississippi River, highlighting riverine processes.
through millennia. It was a “great leap forward in understanding the alluvial and sedimentological processes of the Mississippi Valley and the fundamental value of these insights to river engineering strategies and techniques.”

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