geology of disney

Looking at Walt Disney World with Lidar!

OpenTopography provides access to USGS 3DEP lidar data, and there just so happens to be lidar coverage of the whole Walt Disney World resort! Take a unique 3D look at some iconic features across Walt Disney World! The images are lidar 3D point clouds viewed in the online Potree viewer via OpenTopography.

Lidar 3D point cloud colored by elevation of Cinderella’s Castle at the Magic Kingdom
3D point cloud colored by elevation of the Contemporary Resort with the Magic Kingdom in the background
3D point cloud colored by elevation of the Millennium Falcon in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge

Dataset citation: U.S. Geological Survey (2021). FL Peninsular FDEM Orange 2018. Distributed by OpenTopography. https://portal.opentopography.org/usgsDataset?dsid=FL_Peninsular_FDEM_Orange_2018.

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