{"id":176,"date":"2015-02-04T08:31:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T16:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/?page_id=176"},"modified":"2015-02-11T09:52:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T17:52:04","slug":"aerial-photos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/site-characterization\/aerial-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Aerial Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p>Aerial photos are an essential tool for many geotechnical engineering projects. For example, aerial photos can be used to track human activities over recent years (e.g., old buildings, roads, and ports), the existence of landslide features, or the local geology affecting a project. Aerial photos can be obtained through a number of private and public organizations.<\/p>\n<p>These aerial photos of Moss Landing on Monterey Bay, California, were valuable in understanding liquefaction related damage from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_315\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/02\/Aerial-P1-Labeled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-315\" class=\"wp-image-315 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/02\/Aerial-P1-Labeled-300x229.jpg\" alt=\" This aerial photo was taken in 1952. Monterey Bay is on the left.\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/02\/Aerial-P1-Labeled-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/02\/Aerial-P1-Labeled-196x150.jpg 196w, https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/02\/Aerial-P1-Labeled-150x115.jpg 150w, https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/02\/Aerial-P1-Labeled.jpg 643w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This aerial photo was taken in 1952. Monterey Bay is on the left.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_316\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/02\/Aerial-P2-Labeled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-316\" class=\"wp-image-316 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/02\/Aerial-P2-Labeled-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"This 1987 aerial photo is of the same area. Comparisons of this photo with the 1952 photo (and other photos) show shoreline variations as well as old and new constructed facilities (e.g., see the new docks in the southern inner harbor). The shoreline variations helped identify locations of very young alluvial deposits, which correlated with some of the more extensive liquefaction damage.\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/02\/Aerial-P2-Labeled-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/02\/Aerial-P2-Labeled-201x150.jpg 201w, https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/02\/Aerial-P2-Labeled-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/02\/Aerial-P2-Labeled.jpg 651w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This 1987 aerial photo is of the same area. Comparisons of this photo with the 1952 photo (and other photos) show shoreline variations as well as old and new constructed facilities (e.g., see the new docks in the southern inner harbor). The shoreline variations helped identify locations of very young alluvial deposits, which correlated with some of the more extensive liquefaction damage.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_314\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/02\/Aerial-P3-Labeled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-314\" class=\"wp-image-314 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/02\/Aerial-P3-Labeled-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"This 1989 photo from an airplane shows a different perspective of the Moss Landing site.\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/02\/Aerial-P3-Labeled-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/02\/Aerial-P3-Labeled-230x150.jpg 230w, https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/02\/Aerial-P3-Labeled-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/02\/Aerial-P3-Labeled.jpg 751w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This 1989 photo from an airplane shows a different perspective of the Moss Landing site.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aerial photos are an essential tool for many geotechnical engineering projects. For example, aerial photos can be used to track human activities over recent years (e.g., old buildings, roads, and ports), the existence of landslide features, or the local geology affecting a project. Aerial photos can be obtained through a  \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/site-characterization\/aerial-photos\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":41,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-twocolumns-left.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-176","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions\/317"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/gpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}