LiDAR at the Joggins Fossil Cliffs UNESCO World Heritage Site

This is a LiDAR (Light Detecting and Ranging) image of a section of the Joggins Fossil Cliffs UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Cliffs will be captured in georeferenced LiDAR surveys by Dalhousie University, in collaboration with CoGS (Centre of Geographic Sciences), as they continue to erode. The captures will include the fossil trees and fluvial meanderbelt systems. These successive captures will allow for paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the standing forest and fluvial meanderbelt system in 3D.

If only Sir Charles Lyell and Sir John Dawson were alive to see this!