In celebration of GIS Day 2021, the Washington Geological Survey is releasing ten new lidar images featuring geologic landforms from around the State. This exciting batch of images includes volcanoes, ice age floodscapes, earthquake-induced landslides, and winding rivers. Use the links below the images to view and download high-resolution versions of each one. You can find these and other lidar images and maps on Washington DNR’s Flickr page.
A “snowy” lidar view of Mount Adams, a stratovolcano in Washington’s Cascade Range, and Washington’s second tallest mountain.
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These images are great for earth science presentations, learning about lidar, and for using as digital wallpaper. They are also big enough to support large-format printing.
The images are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. You may use these for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, with or without modification, as long as you attribute us. For attribution please use ‘Image from the Washington Geological Survey (Washington State DNR)’ if it’s a direct reproduction, or ‘Image modified from the Washington Geological Survey (Washington State DNR)’ if there has been some modification.
To view and download the lidar data that these were made with, visit the Washington Lidar Portal (lidarportal.dnr.wa.gov/).
Bare-earth lidar image of Dungeness Spit, a five-mile long sand spit on the northern Olympic Peninsula. Dungeness Spit is the longest natural sand spit in the United States.
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A photo/lidar animation of the Spencer Canyon fault scarp and two associated landslides. This fault was located in 2015 (with the help of lidar!) and after being trenched and dated it was linked to the 1872 earthquake that shook much of the Pacific Northwest.
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A “moonlit” lidar view of Frenchman Coulee and Echo Basin near the Columbia River in Central Washington. These two prominent physical features were scoured by cataclysmic floods near the end of the last ice age. This area is now a popular rock climbing destination with hundreds of routes in the basalt columns of the remaining uplands.
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Bare-earth lidar image of the Palouse River winding its way through the distinctive loess (windblown glacial silt) hills of the Palouse in eastern Washington.
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Photo/lidar composite animation of the corkscrew-shaped features of the eroded volcanic cone and lava flows of Spiral Butte near White Pass in the Cascade Range.
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Lidar-derived image of the Willapa River as it flows out of the heart of the Willapa Hills in southwest Washington.
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Bare-earth lidar view of ripple marks in northeast Washington which were left behind by massive floods near the end of the last ice age.
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Bare-earth lidar image of the Kettle River floodplain and surrounding bedrock of the Okanogan Highlands in northeast Washington.
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Lidar-derived image of a massive alluvial fan along the Columbia River in Douglas County, Washington.
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