2015 GMRC Aerial Photography/LiDAR Consortium Project Status Report Faith Bryan, Georgia Mountains Regional Commission Jeff Simmons, Quantum Spatial

Project Area

The project is in 5 Regional Commissions Northwest, Northeast, Atlanta, Middle and Georgia Mountains Covers 6,480 square miles Totals $1.6 million dollars Includes Administrative Fees for GMRC Largest project of its kind in the State of Georgia for 2015 Regionalism at its Best!!!

Contract was signed between GMRC and Quantum Spatial on November 20 th, 2014 after contract was approved by GMRC Council Pictometry was Sub- Consultant to Quantum Spatial Each County/City entered into contract with GMRC individually Contracting

Dates the Planes were in the Air!

OrthoImagery Requested Products: 6” Pixel Resolution, 4-Band (Banks, Baldwin, Barrow, Cleveland, Dawson, Fannin, Fayette, Forsyth, Franklin, Habersham, Hall, Hart, Helen, Henry, Jackson, Paulding, Pickens, Rockdale, Stephens, Towns, Union) 3” Pixel Resolution, 4-Band (City of Atlanta, Bartow, Dekalb) 1’ Pixel Resolution, 4-Band (Union Forested) Acquisition Started – January 16 th, 2015 Completed – April 1, 2015 First Deliverables arrived September 8 th, 2015 City of Cleveland By-Pass Construction

OrthoImagery Dawsonville City Hall

OrthoImagery Downtown Blairsville

OrthoImagery Hayestone Brady Business Park

ADS 100 Sensor The ADS 100 swath in pixels is 1.67 times that of older ADS models, 1.45 times that of the DMC I, and nearly equal in size to the UltraCAM Eagle. This directly affects the width of coverage of a single flight line and therefore the number of flight lines required to cover a given project area. This has a large impact on acquisition costs.

ADS 100 Sensor

LiDAR Requested Products: Base USGS V1 Spec 1.0m 2’ Contour Generation (Cobb, Fayette, Forsyth, Habersham, Henry) Base USGS V1 Spec 4.0m 1’ Contour Generation (City of Atlanta, Bartow) Acquisition Started – January 18 th, 2015 Completed - February 11, 2015 First Deliverables arrived June 8 th, 2015

Downtown Connector

HARTSFIELD-JACKSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

Flying Around Hartsfield

Etowah Indian Mounds, Bartow County, GA

High density LiDAR used to measure morphology and riparian parameters On the ground Roads and transportation networks Impervious (paved surfaces) Hydrology Flooding & inundation Erosion & terrain failure Archeology Contour Creation Flood Plain Management Project Development – (Water, Sewer, Buildings)

Above the ground Structures Impervious (Bldgs) Utilities Vegetation Land Cover

Archeology USGS 10 m DEM Courtesy Carl Shields (KY DOT) QL2 - LiDAR Courtesy of the KY Heritage Council. Painting by Jim Railey

Building Footprints from LiDAR Datasets created – Semi-automated delineation of Buildings – Using LiDAR and imagery

Obliques Requested Products: 3”, 6” or 9” Pixel Resolution Obliques (Banks, Bartow, Baldwin, Stephens, Henry, Fayette) Acquisition Started – January 14 th, 2015 Completed – February 6, 2015 Pictometry Software/ Product Use Started in May 2015

Project Award Georgia Mountains Regional Commission won the 2015 National Association of Development Organizations Innovation Award

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