Projects >> U-081
PI: Dr. Alex Tye
Project Lead: Erika Schreiber
Funding Source: None
Location: Zion National Park, Utah
Dates: 2022-06-14 to 2022-06-15
U-081 - Terrestrial lidar scanning of precarious rock column, Zion National Park
PI: Dr. Alex Tye
Project Lead: Erika Schreiber
Funding Source: None
Location: Zion National Park, Utah
Dates: 2022-06-14 to 2022-06-15
Project Summary
The goal of the project at Zion National Park is to generate a TLS-based, high-resolution 3D model of a precariously balanced column of rock that poses significant rockfall risk to historic structures in the park. The 3D model will support data from crack-displacement sensors installed between the rock column and the intact cliff face behind it. These crack-displacement sensors show that the rock column is moving away from the intact cliff face at a rate of millimeters per year. The model will be used to constrain the conditions and expected timing of aseismic failure of the column