Daniel Coe’s Astonishing River Cartography – Orion

Lena River Veins: Image of the Lena River Delta in Russia, derived from a high-resolution stereo digital elevation model (by Daniel Coe CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr).

Cartographer Daniel Coe uses relative elevation data, primarily from plane-mounted lasers called lidar…His stunning river maps reveal stories hidden in historical sediment and past channels carved by the water, as it twists and turns through both landscape and time.