Elevation Maps from Lidar

During the past few days, Liam Pedersen has been working to automatically transform the data captured by K10's lidar into elevation maps and traversability maps (which indicate areas where K10 can, and cannot, traverse). This image shows a colored elevation map overlaid on Google Earth. The elevation map was generated from two successive lidar scans, each of which has a 40x40 degree field of view. The map makes it much easier to understand the slope of the lava flow.