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Apr 26, 2019
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of a new lidar dataset covering approximately 63 square km of the Guadalupe Mountains and the McKittrick Canyon Wilderness Study Area in New Mexico and Texas. The data were collected through an NCALM SEED grant to Alexander Neely (PSU) for the quantification of rock strength controls on landscape morphology. NCALM is an NSF-funded center that supports the use of airborne laser mapping technology (a.k.a. lidar) in the scientific community and is jointly operated by the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Cullen College of... more
Apr 10, 2019
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of a lidar dataset covering about 2,200 km2 of New Zealand's Canterbury region. The data were collected in 2016 and 2017 by Aerial Surveys for the Environment Canterbury Regional Council (ECAN). This dataset is available through on ongoing collaboration between OpenTopography and Land Information New Zealand (LINZ), that makes OpenTopography the primary distribution platform for point cloud data collected as part of the LINZ national elevation program.
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Canterbury, New Zealand 2016
DSM hillshade of farmland near Willowbridge, New... more
Apr 9, 2019
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of a new lidar dataset covering approximately 545 square km of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. The data were collected by NCALM for Dr. Wetherbee Dorshow and Dr. Wirt Wills to help reconstruct the three dimensional landscape, as well as model land use, in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. NCALM is an NSF-funded center that supports the use of airborne laser mapping technology (a.k.a. lidar) in the scientific community and is jointly operated by the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston and... more
Mar 21, 2019
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of a new lidar dataset covering approximately 28 km of the central San Andreas Fault near Parkfield, California. The data were collected as part of NCALM's seed grant program for Michael Vadman at Virginia Tech University. NCALM is an NSF-funded center that supports the use of airborne laser mapping technology (a.k.a. lidar) in the scientific community and is jointly operated by the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston and the Department of Earth and Planetary Science,... more
Mar 14, 2019
OpenTopography is happy to formally announce the release of new web-based functionality for on-demand vertical differencing (a.k.a. change detection) of multi-temporal high resolution topographic data. If you follow us on Twitter, you may have seen some posts in December during the annual American Geophysical Union meeting highlighting this functionality where we first announced it in a talk: Scott et al., 2018, Web-based Topographic Differencing of High Resolution Topography Data.
Via OpenTopography’s portal interface, users can now quickly calculate surface change from a variety of tectonic... more
Feb 27, 2019
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of three new lidar datasets covering about 3,092 km2 of New Zealand's South Island: Mackenzie, Canterbury; Otago; and Queenstown. The data were collected in 2015 and 2016 by Aerial Surveys for the Otago Regional Council and Genesis Energy Limited, respectively. The approximately 8.1 billion lidar points in these three datasets are available through on ongoing collaboration between OpenTopography and Land Information New Zealand (LINZ), that makes OpenTopography the primary distribution platform for point cloud data collected as part of the... more
Feb 6, 2019
A recent StateScoop Radio GIS Addressed podcast tackled the topic of 3D elevation data collected with lidar. StateScoop is a website that "reports on news and events impacting technology decisions in state and local government", and the podcast discusses the power of lidar and 3D elevation data from a statewide mapping and GIS program perspective. The podcast features Phil Worrall, executive director, Indiana Geographic Information Council; Dennis Pedersen, GIS director, Tennessee; and Nate Roth, geographic information officer, California Department of Conservation.
One of the topics... more
Dec 20, 2018
On account of the winter holiday break and the San Diego Supercomputer Center at University of California, San Diego closure, OpenTopography will be operating with reduced support between December 24th and January 1st. OpenTopography systems will be fully available and users may run jobs as they normally do. However, responses to email, system outages, and bug reports may be delayed. If you have questions or concerns please email info@opentopography.org and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience and happy holidays from the OpenTopography Team!
Dec 6, 2018
Connect with OpenTopography at the 2018 American Geophysical Union meeting in Washington D.C.! OpenTopography will be in booth #503 on "NSF Street" in the exhibit hall. The booth is shared with the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM). Our booth is staffed by the OpenTopography team and community members, and is a great chance to ask questions, provide feedback, or to discuss lidar, high resolution topography, and cyberinfrastructure.
Stop by to see some exciting new features in OpenTopography:
The OpenTopography Community Dataspace - come learn how you can use this new feature... more
Sep 18, 2018
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of four new lidar datasets covering about 1,790 km2 of the north coast of New Zealand's South Island: Blenheim, the Wairau valley region, and lower Awatere river corridor; Golden Bay, including Aorere Extension, Farewell Spit, Lee Dam, and St. Arnaud; Abel Tasman and Golden Bay; and Richmond and Motueka. The data were collected by AAM and New Zealand Aerial Mapping for the Tasman and Marlborough District Councils, respectively, and were provided to OpenTopography by Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) as part of an ongoing collaboration that... more
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