{"id":463,"date":"2014-03-28T16:45:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T20:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/?p=463"},"modified":"2014-03-28T16:47:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T20:47:06","slug":"look-ma-new-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/2014\/03\/28\/look-ma-new-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"Look, Ma.  New toys!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Temple has recently purchased a Trimble TX-5 terrain-based LiDAR system that collects nearly million points a second as it scans the position of nearby structures. \u00a0The \u00a0system will be used for mapping microtopography as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.philly.com\/2014-01-23\/news\/46468070_1_storm-water-philadelphia-water-department-heavy-rains\">a new million dollar EPA Star gran<\/a>t to study storm water management in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a 3D point cloud of the Temple Bell tower and surrounding area. \u00a0The color contours shows the elevation controls of the brick courtyard surrounding the tower in 1-inch increments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/files\/2014\/03\/BellTower.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-464\" alt=\"BellTower\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/files\/2014\/03\/BellTower-1024x502.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/files\/2014\/03\/BellTower-1024x502.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/files\/2014\/03\/BellTower-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/files\/2014\/03\/BellTower-900x441.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temple has recently purchased a Trimble TX-5 terrain-based LiDAR system that collects nearly million points a second as it scans the position of nearby structures. \u00a0The \u00a0system will be used for mapping microtopography as part of a new million dollar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/2014\/03\/28\/look-ma-new-toys\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":606,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/606"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}