Site Design Planning Skills

Feature Locations: Maps and Positions of Things

• How do you identify a topology map point with an actual place on the land?
• How to use a GIS to map trees?

• What is the state of art in technique and accuracy for capturing topographical features?

• Aerial drones with LIDAR can now capture 600 acres of data in a single day with 2 inch accuracy of height.
• $7k puck for UAVs with 32 lasers and 700k measurement points per second. 2.2 lb, can be put on an octocopter. Effective range is 80m - works with 20m/s fixed wing airplanes. - [1]

• What companies produce UAV Lidar systems?

• Phoenix Aerial Systems - [2]
• LIDAR America

LIDAR Drones

• How is positioning obtained? With a GPS IMU.
• What is SLAM - Simultaneous Locating and Mappping - OpenSLAM

Open Source GIS

• Is there a free cloud GIS free solution?
• Is there any usable open source GIS planning software?
• How to do a simple technical drawing of a lot?

Topography

• What is a topographical map, and what resolution is required to produce effective waterworks?

Soil Map

• What does a soil map show, and why is it important?

Waterworks

• What is the waterworks layer on a map?
• What is a soil hydrology map, and what does it show?
• What to look for in a soil map?
• What are FOM of a topology map?

• How do you know where to place a big pond, and where to put it?
• How do you decide how many ponds should be created?
• How do you decide the distance between Swales?
• How do you do water capture waterworks when there are features in the way that you want to save?
• How do you do so when there