OT Blog
Information and discussion related to high-resolution lidar topography for the Earth sciences
AGU Joint Assembly and Silvilaser 2009
A few recent announcements about upcoming meetings that may be of interest to the OpenTopography community:
"Application of Laser Scanning to Geophysical Studies" at the AGU Joint Assembly 24-27 May 2009 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada:
G04: Application of Laser Scanning to Geophysical Studies
High resolution terrain session at MODSIM09
Another email announcement about an upcoming meeting with a session devoted to high resolution topography data. This session looks quite interesting as the MODSIM09 conference has the stated goal of "Interfacing Modeling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences". The abstract deadline is December 31st. Email initially distributed via the ASU LiDAR listserv.
Dear lidar listserv members
Close range morphological measurement for the earth sciences
Here is an announcement related to terrestrial laser scanning that should be of interest to the OpenTopography community. The announcement came through on the GEOMOD-LIDAR-L listserv this morning:
Dear Colleagues,
ISPRS V/6: Close range morphological measurement for the earth sciences.
SSA 2009 special session on LiDAR
Here is a call for abstracts for a special session at the 2009 Seismological Society of America meeting in Monterey, CA devoted to applying LiDAR data to the study of active faults. Full announcement courtesy of Carol Prentice (USGS):
NCALM releases Google Earth-based LIDAR Data Distribution Center
Today, Ionut Iordache announced the release of NCALM's new Google Earth-based LiDAR Data Distribution Center. This new system is much improved over NCALM's former means of distributing their public datasets and is likely to be very popular and successful.
Airborne and terrestrial LiDAR coordination for The Great Southern California ShakeOut
Today at 10 am The Great Southern California ShakeOut staged an Mw=7.8 earthquake on the southern San Andreas Fault to raise public awareness of earthquake hazards and to allow public responders and the scientific community to practice their response to such an event.
Call for NCALM Seed Proposals
The National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping has issued their annual call for Seed Proposals from graduate students.
New SRTM DEM Version Available
Ramon Arrowsmith points out that CGIAR-CSI has released a new version (v.4) of their 90m SRTM Digital Elevation Data.
The SRTM data now available from this site has been upgraded to version 4. This latest version represents a significant improvement from previous versions, using new interpolation algorithms and better auxiliary dems. We are confident this is now the highest quality SRTM dataset available.