Case Study

Scanning Glenwood Canyon

Scanning Glenwood Canyon

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www.maptek.com CASE STUDY Scanning Glenwood Canyon In 2010 a massive rockslide closed the busy Interstate I-70 Highway in Glenwood Canyon, 160 miles west of Denver, Colorado. In many places Glenwood Canyon is too narrow for standard road construction, so the road had been built above the Colorado River with the canyon walls serving as the road boundaries. One area just west of Hanging Lake Tunnel is particularly prone to rockslides,

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