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Information and discussion related to high-resolution lidar topography for the Earth sciences
Jan 31, 2012
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.
Follow this link for details about the conference: http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2012/public.asp?page=home.htm
Remote Sensing of Volcanoes (SE 106) is aimed at the geohazard monitoring community as well as deposit mappers. Researchers from both groups... more
Jan 8, 2012
Before the holidays, UNAVCO announced the release of the preliminary report from the Community Workshop: Charting the Future of Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) in the Earth Sciences and Related Fields. Also available on the UNAVCO site are all presentations and breakout materials from the workshop.
OpenTopography was an active part of this workshop and we are very interested in data product, format, and metadata standards for TLS data. We plan to work closely with UNAVCO to facilitate access to TLS datasets via OpenTopography, and will use this report in part to guide our... more
Jan 7, 2012
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.
Knowledge exchange workshop on terrestrial laser scanning
April 2-3 2012
As part of the NERC EO Technology Cluster Lidarnet project we are planning a 2 day workshop at the University of Leicester, UK. The workshop aims to attract a cross section of people from researchers, through... more
Dec 19, 2011
Via email, a call for abstracts for an EGU 2012 session on terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) in geomorphology:
Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) in Geomorphology- EGU 2012 (Vienna, 22-27 April 2012)
Dear Colleague,
We would like to invite abstracts on the subject of Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) in Geomorphology for a session at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2012 (Vienna, 22-27 April 2012). This is part of a larger session on 'High definition topography - data acquisition, modelling, interpretation' (GM2.1) convened by Dirk Rieke-Zapp (University of Bern), Alexander... more
Nov 30, 2011
Via the OpenTopography administered Geoscience Lidar LISTSERV comes this announcement on a 2012 EGU session on Digital Landscapes: Quantitative Interrogation and Use to Examine Geomorphic Processes. The emphasis is on quantitative applications of digital terrain data at all resolutions.
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce GM 2.2 the 'Digital Landscapes' session at EGU2012 (Vienna, 22-27 April 2012). Following a successful session last year, we look forward to seeing you at another dynamic, diverse and interesting session.
GM 2.2 Digital Landscapes: Quantitative Interrogation... more
Nov 16, 2011
The 2012 European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna will feature a session on lidar - Laser Scanning: 3D Spatial Data, Analysis, and Infrastructures in Geosciences. The session announcement is below and abstract submission is open.
OpenTopography will be featured as the invited talk in the session.
Dear Colleague,
We are pleased to draw your kind attention to our EGU2012 (Vienna, 22-27 April 2012) session:
=> ESSI1.6 Laser Scanning: 3D Spatial Data, Analysis, and Infrastructures in Geosciences
(co-listed in GI3 - Earth surface investigation methods and GM2 - Concepts, Techniques and... more
Sep 14, 2011
Mike Oskin (UC Davis), Ramon Arrowsmith (ASU), and I will be teaching a lidar short course October 24 and 25, 2011 at University of California, Davis. The course, Imaging and Analyzing Southern California’s Active Faults with High-Resolution Lidar Topography, will focus on lidar technology, data processing and analysis techniques. We will emphasize fault trace and geomorphic mapping applications, integration with other geospatial data, and data visualization and analysis approaches. The course will be held at KeckCAVES at UC Davis and will combine lectures and hands-on use of several... more
Sep 7, 2011
Ramesh Shrestha, Director of the NSF National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) has announced NCALM's annual call for proposals to their graduate student seed project program. This program collects LiDAR data for up to ten graduate student PIs who require data for their research. Data collection is typically limited to 40 km2 per project and must be targeted at a basic research question in the geosciences. The proposal deadline is November 1, 2011. Email announcement:
The National Center for Airborne Laser mapping (NCALM) invites SEED proposals from Graduate Students PIs who... more
Aug 24, 2011
Via the GEOMORPHLIST comes this announcement about upcoming sessions on the topic of "close range morphological measurement for the Earth sciences" organized by Working Group V6 of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS). The stated goal of ISPRS Working Group V6 is to promote and coordinate activities involving the spatial measurement of natural objects at close range using a variety of modern geomatics technologies, including: digital photogrammetry and terrestrial laser scanning. Activities are of interest to those involved in: 3D reconstruction for:... more
Aug 8, 2011
David Haddad, a PhD student at Arizona State University and one of the most frequent users of OpenTopography, recently sent along a PDF document that he has prepared on his recent work using lidar data accessed via OT to constrain meter-scale offsets along strike-slip faults in southern California. David's document provides an overview of the workflow involved in calculating surface slip offsets using LiDAR-derived DEMs and is a nice tutorial on how to access data from OT. An introduction to the document provided by David:
High-resolution digital topographic data products such as LiDAR-... more