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Information and discussion related to high-resolution lidar topography for the Earth sciences
Jul 8, 2013
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to an exciting session at the 2013 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francsico, CA.
G002. 4D Topography: Detecting Changes to the Earth's Surface with Multi-Temporal, High-Resolution Topographic Data
This session will focus on innovative uses of multi-temporal, high-resolution topographic datasets to explore novel questions in tectonics and geomorphology. Particular emphasis in this session will be given to emerging methods such as airborne and terrestrial LiDAR, radar, RTK-GPS, multi-beam SONAR, and structure-from-motion... more
Apr 24, 2013
NCALM is pleased to announce two awards supported by Optech Inc., and Riegl USA Inc. - the Kurt Frankel and Clint Slatton Awards. Information on the two awards is below. Complete guidelines and nomination forms can be found on the NCALM website. In addition, requests for nominations will also be advertised in EOS on May 7, 14, and 21st.
Deadline for nominations is June 1, 2013. Nomination forms should be emailed to Laura Murphy, Program Manager at lamurphy@uh.edu.
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University of Houston and Riegl USA Inc. Kurt L. Frankel Award
The University of Houston and... more
Apr 1, 2013
UNAVCO is offering a paid internship for summer 2013 to focus on the development of community support resources for the UNAVCO Geodetic Imaging (Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) - a.k.a., ground-based LiDAR) program. Specifically, the intern will work with the UNAVCO Education and Community Engagement (ECE) and TLS groups to develop online resources such as documentation, written and video tutorials, short course training modules, and other content focused on the collection and processing of TLS data. The framework and presentation of the new TLS content will be used as a model for other... more
Mar 7, 2013
OpenTopography is a co-sponsor of a 2013 European Geosciences Union Summer School program on: "Understanding Earth-surface processes in the alpine environment from high resolution topography". The course will be taught July 29 to August 4th, 2013 in Italian Dolomites.
Ramon Arrowsmith (ASU) - a Co-Investigator on OpenTopography - is on the summer school scientific committee and will be presenting a keynote talk during the course.
Aims and Scope:
Training in field acquisition, processing and interpretation of high resolution topographic data with ground-based (GPS, Terrestrial Laser... more
Feb 19, 2013
Dave Tewksbury from Hamilton College got in touch to let us know that he'll be teaching a pair of lidar short courses at the 2013 Geological Society of America Northeastern Section Meeting in Bretton Woods, NH. Both courses are on Sunday, March 17th, with the first in the morning and the second in the afternoon.
Details:
Introduction to LiDAR
David Tewksbury, Hamilton College
Sun., 17 March, 9 a.m.-noon
What is LiDAR? How are LiDAR data collected? How can that data be used? This workshop will focus on Airborne Laser Swath Mapping (ALSM) and its application to the geological... more
Jan 25, 2013
The American Geophysical Union Meeting of the Americas, May 14-17, 2013 in Cancun, Mexico will host a session on Geodetic imaging with lidar. The session description:
Airborne lidar enables researchers to make 'bare earth' geodetic images of areas for which no accurate topographic maps exist. In addition to mapping surface displacements associated with seismic events, landslides, and storm damage, recent airborne lidar observations have captured archaeological ruins hidden beneath tropical rain forests in Belize, Mexico, and Honduras, revolutionizing the practice of archaeology in... more
Jan 4, 2013
The NSF-funded National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) is soliciting input into how well they have been serving their user community and guidance on future activities. OpenTopography is currently the primary data access point for NCALM-collected data, and OT users therefore represent significant consumers of NCALM data. Please take a moment to reflect upon NCALM and how you have utilized data they have collected, then complete the survey linked below. Thanks.
Dear LiDAR Users,
To gather community input on how well the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) is... more
Nov 21, 2012
A common question we receive at OpenTopography is "do you know if there is lidar available for location xxx?". Typically, when we get this question I refer people to the OpenTopography Find Data page (an increasingly rich source for lidar data) and this page of links to online sources of lidar. But, there are large amounts of data collected by federal, state, and local agencies that can be hard to track down. Earlier this year, NOAA and the USGS, in collaboration with FEMA, released the United States Interagency Elevation Inventory which is meant to be a clearinghouse for "high-accuracy... more
Oct 29, 2012
The National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) has announced their 2012 call for Graduate Student Seed Proposals. The NCALM Seed program provides an excellent opportunity for graduate students to obtain lidar data for their research. Data collections are limited to 40 square kilometers. For examples of data collected under previous NCALM seed grants, see OpenTopography's archive of NCALM data. The application deadline is November 12th. Details:
The National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM), funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), invites proposals from... more
Oct 25, 2012
The National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) has a project scheduled for January 2013 in Hawaii, and is looking for other potential partners who may also be interested in having data collected while they are there. This is a good opportunity to take advantage of the fact that the NCALM instrumentation will already be in Hawaii. Details:
NCALM will be in Hawaii late January 2013 to collect Near IR LiDAR and optical data (aerial photography and hyperspectral images) for a research project for USGS funded by US Army. In addition, we can also deploy NCALM's new bathymetric (green)... more