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Mar 18, 2024
Updated August 27th, 2024 OpenTopography is happy to announce a new subscription-based program (OT+) to enable access to our platform of user-friendly services applied to high resolution lidar topography data covering the vast majority of the US’s...
Oct 1, 2024
We will be conducting scheduled maintenance on Tuesday Oct 1st from 2pm PDT to 6pm PDT. During this period the OpenTopography Portal and APIs may be temporarily unavailable. Thank you for your understanding.
Sep 3, 2024
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has renewed funding for OpenTopography, a science gateway that provides online access to Earth science oriented high resolution topography data and processing...

Latest Blog Posts

Sep 13, 2024
by Emily Zawacki OpenTopography periodically highlights new research results that demonstrate the use and reuse of data from OpenTopography. These three publications highlight topographic research applications in fault geomorphology, botany, and ecology and wildlife management. Fault mapping with drone lidar Lidar...
Apr 22, 2024
by Emily Zawacki OpenTopography periodically highlights new research results that demonstrate the use and reuse of data from OpenTopography. These three publications highlight topographic research applications in earthquake hazards, wildlife and conservation, and geomorphology. Using lidar to assess building damage...