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DTM — Drone LiDAR to Drainage Network Pipeline

End-to-end geospatial pipeline turning raw drone LiDAR into a designed drainage network. Built for the MoPR Geospatial Hackathon at IIT Tirupati.
status completed
stack Python, pysheds, XGBoost, networkx, Geospatial processing
code https://github.com/charansaiponnada/DTM

A full geospatial processing pipeline for the MoPR Geospatial Hackathon at IIT Tirupati: ground classification, DTM interpolation, hydrology modeling and drainage network design, running on real drone LiDAR data.
problem
Raw drone LiDAR point clouds are not directly usable for drainage planning — the ground surface has to be extracted, interpolated and modeled hydrologically before any network can be designed.
solution
A staged pipeline: ground classification, DTM interpolation, hydrological flow modeling with pysheds, and drainage network design over the resulting graph.
architecture
results
A working end-to-end pipeline from raw drone LiDAR to a designed drainage network, with a waterlogging-risk classifier over real terrain data.