This week I have been downloading new sets of Orthophotos that I hope will aide me in finding and mapping the rock glaciers. The current orthos I have are at the county level and don't provide much detail. The new ones I am currently downloading cover the entire extent of the study area.
I will be using Ouray county for my first "test case" to find rock glaciers and use it as a model to find other ones in our study area. I have been pouring through the imagery and have found 3-4 instances of what I believe are rock glaciers in this county. I am also going to try to use the old map from the original paper to find the areas that were marked in 1979 around the Telluride region.
As far as the DEM data goes, I have a huge DEM that covers the entire study area at the moment. I am currently looking for a way to split it into sections so that it will be easier to work with. Then I will go through the process of creating slope/aspect maps for these split DEM files. I tried to do the slope/aspect processing for the large DEM but found out that it would take entirely too long to finish.
I hope that I can get a good shapefile of rock glaciers for Ouray county next week, so that I can extend to other areas and begin compiling a good database of the other ones I find. This should let me get to the point where I can start getting my poster finished with all the data that I need.
Currently completed 40/90 hours as of 4/1/2009
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