LiDAR - Illuminating Earthquake Hazards Video Premiered at SCEC Annual Meeting
As part of a Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) and OpenTopography collaboration, Sarah Robinson (ASU M.S.
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Fall AGU Special Session on Ground Based Geodetic Techniques and Science Applications
Session announcements for the fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in San Francisco are beginning to appear. The following session on ground based geodetic techniques includes an emphasis on terrestrial laser scanning:
Dear Colleagues:
Geoscience Applications of High-Resolution Digital Topography in Arizona
The latest edition of the Arizona Geological Survey's online Arizona Geology magazine has a nice article on recent applications of airborne and terrestrial LiDAR to geoscience research in Arizona written by David Haddad, a graduate student in ASU's
LiDAR Beginning to Appear in Google Maps Terrain Layer
One of my favorite features in Google Maps is the terrain layer, which provides a shaded relief (aka hillshade) view of the topography derived from a digital elevation model. Google has done a nice job generating a visually pleasing terrain layer, and we use it for all of our Google Maps-based interfaces in OpenTopography. Google appears to use a range of digital elevation model data sources to derive the terrain layer.
Workshops on Interoperability/Technology and Education/Outreach aspects of Geoinformatics
The following workshop, to be held September 23 and 24, 2010 at the USGS-Denver Federal Center, may be of interest to the OpenTopography community and researchers working on geoinformatics:
Workshops on Interoperability/Technology and Education/Outreach aspects of Geoinformatics - working towards a National Geoinformatics Community
Global Forest Heights Map From NASA LIDAR and MODIS Data
A press release from NASA yesterday highlights the first global map of forest canopy heights created from ICESat LiDAR and MODIS data. The map, produced by Dr.
Virtual tectonics session at 2010 GSA meeting
Yet another session at the 2010 Geological Society of America Meeting in Denver that may be of interest to the OpenTopography community. Announcement via the GEOMOD-LIDAR-L list:
Good afternoon,
We would like to call your attention to a topical session (oral) at the national GSA meeting in Denver in October:
2010 GSA Annual Meeting - Applications of Airborne and Terrestrial Lidar
This GSA 2010 LiDAR session announcement went out this morning via various listservs.
OpenTopography Overview Video
The OpenTopography ASU Capstone team - a group of senior undergraduate (who have now graduated - congrats!) School of Computing and Informatics students at Arizona State supervised by OpenTopography Co-I Ramon Arrowsmith - have released another nice video about OpenTopography. This video provides an introduction to the OpenTopography Facility:
Recap: Accessing Haiti Earthquake LiDAR Data
Following the January 12th, 2010 Haiti earthquake I wrote a number of blog posts related to the post-earthquake LiDAR data that were collected by the Center for Imaging Science at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Kucera International, and ImageCat, Inc (with funding from the World Bank), and the