Estimate Storage Capacity with Drone Imagery
Create data products of a water storage basin and calculate its area. 1 hour 15 minutes
The Yucaipa Valley Water District needed to estimate the storage capacity of a storm-water retention basin. The inland Southern California district has a $26 million annual budget and manages 40-square miles of mountains in a near-desert environment.
Wanting to save money, the district chose a drone as an inexpensive alternative to the more traditional and more expensive on-site measurements. In this lesson, you'll convert drone imagery into elevation layers using Drone2Map for ArcGIS. Then, using ArcGIS Pro and ModelBuilder, you'll create a geoprocessing model to estimate the basin's volume.
Lesson plan
| Create the data | Convert drone imagery to orthomosaic, digital terrain model, and digital surface model datasets. | 30 minutes |
| Estimate volume | Build a model to automate the stormwater basin capacity calculation. | 30 minutes |
| Share the results | Describe 1 or more skills applied in this topic. | 15 minutes |
Builds skills in
Imagery & Remote Sensing | Mapping & Visualization | Spatial Analytics
Focus industry
- Water
Requirements
- Drone2Map for ArcGIS
- ArcGIS Pro
- ArcGIS Spatial Analyst
- Publisher or Administrator role in an ArcGIS organization (get a free trial)
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