In this weeks lab I had to extract liDAR data from Virginia, from the vgil website. With the liDAR data I used many geoprocessing tools to find information. In part 1 of the lab I used tools to separate the part of the liDAR that represents the ground, and then get the area that is not on the ground. Using the minus tool and these 2 new datasets I was able to find the hieght of the canopy in Virginia.
In part 2 of the lab I used the count, null, plus, float, and divide tool to create a Density map of the canopy in Virginia. In the density map you are able to see areas with dense vegetation with the 1 values showing up darker. The lighter (0) values are showing the ground areas, with low vegetation. This is helpful to foresters to see the areas with higher density, You can see in this map that roads have very low density.
The lab this week was very interesting but was difficult with the slow speed of the remote desktop. Creating my presentable maps was a challenge due to the slow network speed.
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