{"id":36,"date":"2013-03-10T23:53:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T23:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2013-03-10T23:53:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T23:53:29","slug":"measuring-300-redwoods-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/2013\/03\/10\/measuring-300-redwoods-how\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring 300&#8242; (+) Redwoods ~ How?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How are 200&#8242; to 300&#8242; redwood trees measured? (some even taller)<\/p>\n<p>There are two very accurate ways to do it. One is climb them like the researchers do occasionally. The other way is a top of the line laser range finder (which researchers also use sometimes)<\/p>\n<p>The unit pictured here is a Lasertech Impulse 200LR, which is accurate within about 1 inch, with a range of about 1800 feet.\u00a0 For example, when a climber went up the world record 268&#8242; pine we found in Oregon, his tape drop measure to the ground, differed from our laser measurement by less than 2 millimeters.<\/p>\n<p>The reflection in the laser&#8217;s glass below, is a coast redwood near Drury Parkway, when we were measuring the tallest coast redwood known in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_37\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/laser600Date.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37\" alt=\"Measuring Redwoods\" src=\"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/laser600Date.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/laser600Date.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/laser600Date-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-37\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Measuring Redwoods<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How are 200&#8242; to 300&#8242; redwood trees measured? (some even taller) There are two very accurate ways to do it. One is climb them like the researchers do occasionally. The other way is a top of the line laser range finder (which researchers also use sometimes) The unit pictured here is a Lasertech Impulse 200LR, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}