Information and discussion related to high-resolution lidar topography for the Earth sciences
It is 2012 American Geophysical Union (AGU) session announcement season. This is a session convened by several OpenTopography collaborators that will be of great interest to the OpenTopography community:
We invite you to join us at the 2012 AGU Fall Meeting for a session titled "4-D Lidar: changes to Earth's surface measured from differencing repeat dense topographic datasets."
A pair of recent publications related to paleoseismic research in California feature lidar topography data accessed and processed via OpenTopography. Both papers utilize B4 lidar data extensively, and OpenTopography played an integral role in providing access to both the point cloud and custom digital elevation models discussed in the publications.
At last month's UNAVCO Science Workshop they introduced an evening of Ignite talks presented by members of the UNAVCO community. The event was well attended and quite fun. The full set of videos are now available here: http://igniteshow.com/events/2012-unavco-science-workshop
Back in December, ASU graduate student Gayatri Marliyani and OpenTopography co-PI Ramon Arrowsmith traveled to Indonesia for research. During the trip they made a visit to Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Yogyakarta, the oldest and largest university in Indonesia. While at UGM, Gayatri and Ramon led a one day lidar short course to promote the utilization of lidar technology for research in Indonesia.
Barrett Salisbury, a graduate student at ASU and regular OpenTopography user, is conducting a research study - Remotely measuring tectonically offset geomorphic features using light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data - to explore the "repeatability, accuracy, and precision" of lateral fault offset measurements made on lidar topography data.
Nancy Glenn at the Boise Center Aerospace Lab (BCAL) wrote to encourage us to spread the word about a post-doc position she is currently advertising in remote sensing & visualization. Nancy is a member of the OpenTopography advisory committee and has led the development of the BCAL LiDAR Tools for ENVI.
Fabio Pacifici, the Chair of the Data Fusion Technical Committee of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) emailed the following announcement to encourage the OpenTopography community to participate in the 2012 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Data Fusion Contest.
Via the OpenTopography administered Geoscience Lidar Listserv:
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to draw your attention to an exciting Remote Sensing of Volcanoes session in the upcoming Joint Assembly between the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the Asia Oceania Geoscience Society (AOGS) to be held in Singapore this August 13th to 17th.
Via the Geomorphlist, an announcement about a terrestrial laser scanning workshop being held April 2012 at the University of Leicester, UK. The "Knowledge exchange workshop on terrestrial laser scanning" is being organized by the Earth Observation Technology Cluster at the University of Nottingham.
