Terrestrial LiDAR Art Exhibit @ Desert Botanical Garden Free Day

Whether you're a terrestrial laser scanning enthusiast or you just appreciate the particular beauty of highly detailed digital representations of nature, join us at Desert Botanical Garden to explore the garden-wide Framerate: Desert Pulse exhibit with fellow LiDAR enthusiasts.

***IMPORTANT --> In addition to RSVPing for this PHXGeo Meetup event, you also need to reserve your Desert Botanical Garden Community Day ticket for Jan. 13 at 6pm. We recommend doing this by Dec. 31 as spots will fill up quickly after that. If you want to see the Garden in daylight, feel free to make an earlier reservation and then join the group at 6:00 just through admissions. ***

ScanLab Projects is an art studio that specializes in creating highly detailed point cloud works of art. They've spent the past year running a Faro Focus scanner to collect extremely dense timelapse infrared scans of the Garden and several other areas of the Phoenix Valley to provide an interesting temporal perspective on the slowest-growing and not-so-slowly changing parts of our natural Sonoran Desert environment - think cacti "drinking" in monsoon, plants blooming, thought-provoking representations of housing developments on the edge of Phoenix, and the falling of a saguaro. Here's a great video showing the making of the exhibit.

We’re particularly excited to have Desert Botanical Garden GIS Manager Aryn Musgrave joining us on the trails to talk about the day-to-day GIS operations that support the Garden's botanical research, horticultural maintenance, and construction projects.

After touring the exhibit, we’ll head to the Garden's restaurant to see if we can cook up some other creative applications for terrestrial LiDAR scanning.