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Haiti LiDAR imagery in Google Earth

LiDAR data collected by the Center for Imaging Science at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Kucera International, and ImageCat, Inc., has been made available for viewing in Google Earth by OpenTopography. In order to make these data easier for all users to access, OpenTopography has processed the filtered (bare earth) and unfiltered DEM data into hillshade images (315 degree illumination angle, 1 meter resolution) that can be viewed in Google Earth. The ~1.5 GB of hillshade imagery for Haiti hosted on OpenTopography servers can be browsed seamlessly in Google Earth. Download the KML file and open in Google Earth to get started.
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Posted: February 26, 2010

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OpenTopography enables detailed analysis of San Andreas Fault--new results published in SCIENCE

Recent ASU Ph.D. and current Post-doc Olaf Zielke and OpenTopography Co-I Ramon Arrowsmith and colleagues published the results of their study of offset channels along the southern San Andreas Fault in Science last week. They had two reports in the issue which were also highlighted in a perspective by Kate Scharer of Appalachian State University.  The cover image of Science featured a 0.25 m digital elevation model (DEM) and hillshade of offset channels along the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain produced by OpenTopography.

Posted: March 07 2010

EarthScope Yakima Standard DEM Data Now Available

As promised in last week’s release of new southern California and Washington EarthScope LiDAR data, the standard digital elevation models for the Yakima fold and thrust belt in central Washington are now available via the OpenTopography Standard DEM page.

Posted: January 21 2010

EarthScope LiDAR and OpenTopography featured as image of the week by iSGTW

Images of EarthScope LiDAR data accessed via the OpenTopography portal are being featured under the title “Seeing with lasers” as Image of the week by International Science Grid This Week (iSGTW).  iSGTW is an international, weekly, on-line newsletter that emphasizes distributed computing, cloud computing and supercomputing for scientific applications.

Posted: January 20 2010

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Workshop Announcement: New Tools in Process-Based Analysis of Lidar Topographic Data

Please see the following announcement for an upcoming NSF-sponsored workshop on “New Tools in Process-Based Analysis of Lidar Topographic Data,” to be held June 1-2 at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. "This workshop is a follow-up to one held in 2008 called “Workshop on Studying Earth Surface Processes with High-resolution Topographic Data”. The goal of this year’s workshop is to provide researchers in Earth surface processes with an opportunity to gain hands-on knowledge in new methods for analyzing high-resolution topographic data. Participants should have active research projects using lidar data (airborne or ground-based). Graduate students, faculty and other researchers are encouraged to attend."

Posted: March 08 2010

On the Cutting Edge workshop on Using GIS and Remote Sensing to Teach Geoscience

I received the following announcement from Barb Tewksbury at Hamilton about an upcoming series of On the Cutting Edge workshops that they are hosting on the topics of Teaching Geoscience Using GIS and Remote Sensing and Teaching Geoscience in the Field in the 21st Century.

Posted: March 06 2010

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