LIDAR Archives - Structural Geology

Rest In Peace Topographic Contours – Part 3

By Paul Hooykaas | 10/04/2013 |

Paul Hooykaas presents an interesting historical background to the construction of topographic contours and why this representation of topography is still used in the resource industry.

Rest In Peace Topographic Contours – Part 2

By Jun Cowan | 02/04/2013 |

If you shouldn’t use topographic contours for 3D modelling, then what should you use? In this blog post, I show the superiority of 3D interpolation by contrasting the stark difference between 2D and 3D interpolated LIDAR surfaces.

Rest In Peace Topographic Contours

By Jun Cowan | 12/02/2013 |

Notwithstanding the nearly 200-year history of topographic contours, in today’s post I’ll question the usefulness of topographic contours in the context of 3D geological modelling. WARNING: Some of you, who have grown up using maps and GIS software, might consider the content of this post blasphemous!