Northeastern Section - 49th Annual Meeting (23–25 March)

Paper No. 7
Presentation Time: 1:30 PM-4:15 PM

ENGAGING STUDENTS IN EARLY UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH USING LIDAR IN STUDYING GLACIAL LANDFORMS


LORING, Danielle, Geology, West Chester University, West Chester, PA 19380 and CHILDERS, Daniel P., Geology, Delaware County Community College, 901 S. Media Line rd, Math/Science dept, Media, PA 19063, danielle.loring@gmail.com

Students used LiDAR images and ArcGIS™ to map various glacial landforms to create a lab exercise as a mini project in the Physical geology course at Delaware County Community College. The exercise includes: measure size, area and extent of three different glacial features. Using these maps they determined the flow direction and which features are erosional and which are depositional and to describe how the various features were formed. The students then imported the data into ArcScene™ to view and analyzed in 3D which includes an estimate of the volume of deposited glacial material.