Cochiti Pueblo village core: model from public lidar, v0.4

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Built from public lidar and imagery; plaza location not confirmed. Pictures are for modeling only, never published; the twin is to be shown only behind a password. Hide

Layers

All shapes come from public data; nothing here is surveyed.

Buildings

Sources

Lidar (heights, ground)USGS 3D Elevation Program, project NM North Central FEMA R6 Lidar 2016 (D17), flown Nov 12, 2016; about 0.4 points per sq ft; public domain. Shown: Lidar points layer.
Older lidar (not used)USGS NM Albuquerque 2010; about 0.2 points per sq ft; ground and unclassified only.
AerialEsri World Imagery (Vantor WorldView-3), about 1 ft per pixel, Sept 20, 2025 over most of the village and Nov 17, 2025 over its north-west part. Shown: Aerial layer.
Building outlinesOpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) first; then Microsoft ML building footprints (ODbL, from imagery) where OpenStreetMap has none; then outlines traced from the 2016 lidar where neither has one. Each card says which. Shown: Outlines layer.
Trees and bushesFrom the 2016 lidar: height and crown size from the returns of each crown, checked against the 2025 aerial. Green patches seen only on the aerial are shown as low bushes, height assumed 3'-0". Crown shapes are drawn, not measured.
Adobe lookRounded corners, wall batter and softened parapet tops are inferred (old adobe), not measured. Parapet heights and steps, and the roof edge of each wall, come from the lidar. Roof colors from the 2025 aerial; walls in earthen plaster color (inferred).
Assumed39 structures have no 2016 lidar roof returns (most built after Nov 2016). 0 take the height in the Microsoft footprint data (estimated from imagery); the rest are assumed 10'-0" (bus shelters 8'-0"). Shown orange in "Color by source".
adobe wallstrees and bushes

Moving around

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