Information and discussion related to high-resolution lidar topography for the Earth sciences
OpenTopography is taking advantage of the expected lower than normal visitor traffic over the upcoming holiday week to make some site updates. We will be rolling out a new logo, site skin, and modified navigation among other things. We apologize in advance if you visit over the next week or so and things seem a little off - rest assured that the site should be back to normal by the first week in December. Here's a sneak peek at what the site will look like when we are done:
Last week the USGS released its much anticipated LiDAR and Orthoimagery RFP. The ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) funded RFP will award 15 grants of up to $500,000 each for the "collection and processing of high resolution elevation data and orthoimagery". The grant is only open to institutions of higher education and state, local and Indian tribal governments.
A few weeks ago I wrote a post on the release of Oregon's LiDAR Data and Map Series. Now, Ian Madin at DOGAMI reports that they have released a new LiDAR data viewer to allow the general public to easily view the data and for GIS users to preview the data before purchasing it.
NCALM's annual announcement for their seed proposals went out yesterday via various email listservs. This an an excellent opportunity for graduate students to obtain free LiDAR data for an area related to their research.
OpenTopography has released yet another round of GeoEarthScope LiDAR data for active faults in southern California.
There will be two sessions at the 2009 Fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) Meeting in San Francisco (December 14-18, 2009) specifically targeted at Earth science applications of LiDAR.
One session is focused on terrestrial LiDAR (TLS):
This week the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) released a new digital map series and a new digital data series featuring LiDAR data collected in the Portland Metro area by the Oregon Lidar Consortium.
The recently released ASTER Global Digital Elevation Map (GDEM) from NASA and Japan's METI has been widely publicized on geospatial data blogs, email lists and in the mainstream media. At 30 meter resolution, these data promise relatively high-resolution DEM coverage for most of the globe (coverage falls between 83N and 83S latitudes).
