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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. The goal of the 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).

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

Filtering vegetation from Terrestrial Laser Scanning data using the Point2Grid tool

Max Wilkinson, a PhD student in the Dept.

Cyber-GIS Opportunities for High-Resolution Topography Data Access, Processing, and Analysis

Earlier this month, I had the privilege of participating in the National Science Foundation TeraGrid Workshop on Cyber-GIS in Washington, DC.

Haiti LiDAR imagery in Google Earth

As discussed in previous blog posts (here and here), LiDAR data have been collected over parts of Haiti following the January 12th earthquake.

ILMF meeting will highlight Haiti LiDAR

The International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF), a LiDAR industry conference in Denver next month, has just announced in a press release the addition of two presentations related to LiDAR data collected over Haiti (see

Article highlights application of Yakima EarthScope LiDAR to landslide research

The Ellensburg, WA Daily Record News published an article today entitled CWU student Tom Winter studies area's slide history that discusses research being conducted by a Central Washington University graduate student who is mapping landslides in the Yakima River Canyon near Ellensburg:

A quick look at NGA LiDAR from Haiti

As I pointed out in my last post, there has been a concerted effort by a number of groups to acquire LiDAR data over Haiti in the wake of the January 12th earthquake.

Haiti LiDAR

Recent reports indicate that there is LiDAR data being collected by a number of groups over Haiti in the wake of the 12 January magnitude 7.0 earthquake. These data will potentially be powerful for earthquake relief workers and the scientific community, and should be an important geospatial resource in the recovery and rebuilding of Haiti.

Geomorphology: Understanding earth surface processes from remotely sensed digital terrain models

I'm a bit late on this, but the December 1, 2009, Geomorphology special volume: Understanding eart

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