Today's fieldchecking with a lidar image

Below is a laser scan (lidar) image of a section of forest that I was fieldchecking today. I created the image with OL-laser.



I highlighted a few features:

1. These blobs in the forest are individual cedar trees. They are quite useful to have on the base map.

2. The east-west running linear feature is an old rock wall. Most of the wall is no more than 0.5 meter high. It will be drawn as a ruined rock wall on the final map.

3. The diagonal line looks a bit like the rock wall. But it isn't a rock wall. It turns out it is a fallen tree.

4. The north-south running linear feature (which is a bit hard to see) is another old rock wall, mostly ruined.

The stream bed that runs east-west across the middle of the map stands out clearly.

The image below is a Google earth photo. You can see the east-west running rock wall pretty clearly. Some of the cedar trees are visible, but not as easy to spot as on the laser scan image.





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