Make your own LiDAR maps for Gold Prospecting, Treasure Hunting and More!!

In this video, I teach you how to make lidar maps for gold prospecting, metal detecting, archeology, and more from free programs and free data that is available online. Lidar is an incredibly powerful tool that lets you see the bare ground surface as if there was no vegetation. With it, you can see the past mining activities such as shafts, adits, pits, trenches, tailing piles, diversions and more!
Qgis downlowd: www.qgis.org/en/site/
Saga gis download: saga-gis.sourceforge.io/en/in...
Best site for free lidar data in the US: viewer.nationalmap.gov/basic/
Please know that there is more free lidar available out there its just not all located in one place. Some states and countries will have their own separate databases for it.

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  • @barrykozak3536
    @barrykozak35365 ай бұрын

    Gonna try and get this done on the next rainy day. Looks straight forward. Thanks!!

  • @radwanahmed9501
    @radwanahmed95013 ай бұрын

    This is very cool, for a while I have been looking for a deep analysis of the data and I am happy that I found that in your channel, thank you my friend

  • @robertw8897
    @robertw88974 ай бұрын

    Great resource. Lot of learning curve with it as there are several associated websites to create a good map, and I did not have most of them, but the walk thru combined with the pause button and playing sections over several times got me thru a lot of it. Very useful stuff. Thanks.

  • @Timeparadox101
    @Timeparadox1012 күн бұрын

    Thankyou very much

  • @SPMining
    @SPMining8 ай бұрын

    I'm Def needing this lesson. Thanks so much! I've tried before and had so much trouble l gave up. Maybe after this. Unfortunately I'm at a trunk or treat so I'll probably have to rewatch it fully tonight lol.

  • @montyp99
    @montyp998 ай бұрын

    Looking forward to it!

  • @montyp99

    @montyp99

    8 ай бұрын

    Thanks for the tips! Going to try this again now... by the way, Firenze is the Italian name for the city of Florence, Italy

  • @gultim59
    @gultim598 ай бұрын

    Thank you!! It worked great!!

  • @theprospectinggeologist4347

    @theprospectinggeologist4347

    8 ай бұрын

    Glad it helped!

  • @JericoHerculesProspectingLLC
    @JericoHerculesProspectingLLC6 ай бұрын

    I'm going to try to do this tonight

  • @SECRETCREEKPROSPECTING1776
    @SECRETCREEKPROSPECTING17768 ай бұрын

    Spot on information that prospector would need to learn. 😅

  • @theprospectinggeologist4347

    @theprospectinggeologist4347

    8 ай бұрын

    Absolutely

  • @kevinerickson2595
    @kevinerickson25958 ай бұрын

    I just found your channel from ask jeff williams ,✌️

  • @theprospectinggeologist4347

    @theprospectinggeologist4347

    8 ай бұрын

    Awesome! Love Jeff Williams he is a great guy.

  • @charlessegovia8027
    @charlessegovia80273 ай бұрын

    Can you make a video of how to detect buried gold or metal or any anomaly on the ground just using GEE? thanks

  • @theprospectinggeologist4347

    @theprospectinggeologist4347

    3 ай бұрын

    No way to really do that. Lidar just shows you the ground surface as if there were no vegetation.

  • @chrishart4637
    @chrishart46378 ай бұрын

    when i start Qgis the template is not the same as yours. the box on the left is labled browser and does not have the tile .icon for raster in it. i have to use layers at the top to get the files. also when i try to merge files the raster tab at the top only has 2 options, raster calculator and align raster. is align raster the same as merge?

  • @theprospectinggeologist4347

    @theprospectinggeologist4347

    8 ай бұрын

    Im not sure. It’s hard to diagnose on here. If you have a FB find me there and PM me. Or shoot me an email a theprospectinggeologist@gmail.com

  • @Jennifer-007

    @Jennifer-007

    7 ай бұрын

    Using the Mac version the same happened to me, you just have to turn on the right windows.

  • @radwanahmed9501
    @radwanahmed95013 ай бұрын

    Can you put a video tutorial on how to detect minerals and subsurface water, I would be grateful to you

  • @phillipbrown1140
    @phillipbrown11405 ай бұрын

    Heyy I’d love to pay for additional help with a complex map feature I want to do. Please let me know your price and availability

  • @jupiter_ki
    @jupiter_kiАй бұрын

    Can you use this for countries outside of the USA ?

  • @theprospectinggeologist4347

    @theprospectinggeologist4347

    Ай бұрын

    Some countries have LiDAR data provided to their citizens others don’t. Canada, UK, Australia all have some Lidar available.

  • @terrygrizz
    @terrygrizz3 ай бұрын

    I've been trying to get 1m dem for Oregon using this method but the national map throws the error of "Due to a network outage, download of Lidar Point Cloud products may be unavailable. Access will be restored as soon as network repairs are complete."

  • @theprospectinggeologist4347

    @theprospectinggeologist4347

    3 ай бұрын

    Yeah their system goes down occasionally. Oregon has their own system as well. I’ll try and shoot you the link when i find it.

  • @rockyegner6451

    @rockyegner6451

    3 ай бұрын

    Do you have download link to the 2 areas in cooker creek from qgis you cold share as well? I've been following along and I get the same error message@@theprospectinggeologist4347

  • @2Goiz_1ShanDA
    @2Goiz_1ShanDA8 ай бұрын

    I've been playing with that USGS a while. Still not figured out😅

  • @theprospectinggeologist4347

    @theprospectinggeologist4347

    8 ай бұрын

    The national map download? What are you trying to use it on? It will not work on your phone nor will the GIS programs.

  • @2Goiz_1ShanDA

    @2Goiz_1ShanDA

    8 ай бұрын

    @@theprospectinggeologist4347 I've use USGS portal ...what's ur problem man?

  • @theprospectinggeologist4347

    @theprospectinggeologist4347

    8 ай бұрын

    ? Didn’t mean anything negative or bad was just trying to trouble shoot to help.

  • @Jennifer-007
    @Jennifer-0077 ай бұрын

    It's called "terrain ruggedness" not roughness.

  • @theprospectinggeologist4347

    @theprospectinggeologist4347

    7 ай бұрын

    Thanks for the correction!

  • @Jennifer-007

    @Jennifer-007

    7 ай бұрын

    @@theprospectinggeologist4347 Thanks for the great videos.

  • @alfonse5043
    @alfonse50432 ай бұрын

    Nice video.. can I get this data format for Romania?

  • @theprospectinggeologist4347

    @theprospectinggeologist4347

    2 ай бұрын

    I’m not sure. What I use in the US has been collected by federal and state governments and provided for free to the public. I don’t know how it works for most other countries.