Information and discussion related to high-resolution lidar topography for the Earth sciences
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.
I'm a bit late on this, but the December 1, 2009, Geomorphology special volume: Understanding eart
An interesting Lidar-oriented session at the AAPG Rocky Mountain Section Meeting in Durango Colorado June 13-16, 2010. Announcement via the GEOMOD-LIDAR-L and ASU LIDAR listservs:
Greetings all,
The ASPRS LAS format has become the standard for delivery of lidar point cloud data. However, because LAS is a binary format, a reader of some kind is necessary to ingest the data, visualize it, or perform additional analysis. Many of the major GIS software packages now support LAS (e.g. ArcGIS) and all of the commercial lidar specific software read and write LAS data.
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):
