The southern San Andreas and the San Jacinto Fault zone were
scanned with LiDAR in 2005 (Bevis et al., 2005; http://www.earthsciences.
osu.edu/b4; Fig. 1). The goals of the project were to gather
high precision topographic (and photographic) data to characterize
near fault ground deformation in a future large earthquake, to support
tectonic and paleoseismic studies, and to further develop the
integrated technologies and protocols (LiDAR, GPS, and IMU)
necessary to routinely collect such research-grade data.