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Sep 4, 2018
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of three new datasets covering areas of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, Utah's Diamond Fork River, and Arizona's Coconino National Forest near Flagstaff. They were collected as part of NCALM's seed grant program. 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, University... more
Jul 23, 2018
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the availability of lidar point cloud data from the Kilauea volcano, Hawaii, USA from early June, 2018 and July, 2018 following the beginning of its most recent activity on May 3, 2018. Funded by the USGS (June) and the State of Hawaii and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) (July), these data acquisitions cover, respectively, three and five regions heavily impacted by the 2018 eruption, including Kilauea Summit and East Rift Zone. Together with the 2009 Hawaii Big Island Lidar Survey, these data offer a rare "before and after" view of one of... more
Jul 11, 2018
A new paper, authored by OpenTopography staff, has been published recently that utilizes lidar and high resolution differential topography for understanding behavior of the shallow fault zone in large surface-rupturing earthquakes.
The M7 2016 Kumamoto, Japan, Earthquake: 3D deformation along the fault and within the damage zone constrained from differential lidar topography
Summary:
Three-dimensional near-fault coseismic deformation fields from high-resolution differential topography provide new information on the behavior of the shallow fault zone in large surface-rupturing earthquakes.... more
Jun 15, 2018
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of five new international datasets covering areas on both sides of the Pacific. Two of the datasets cover portions of the Wellington and Hope Faults in New Zealand, and were collected by NZ Aerial Mapping with funding from GNS Science (NZ), University Joseph Fourier (France), and Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France). A third, collected near the Burdekin River, Australia by Airborne Research Australia, offers point densities much greater than typical airborne lidar due to atypical overlapping flight grids. The fourth and fifth very high... more
Reprocessed version of the B4 Lidar - Southern San Andreas and San Jacinto Faults - Dataset Released
May 22, 2018
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of a reprocessed version of the “B4” lidar dataset covering the southern San Andreas and San Jacinto faults in California, USA, that enables differentiation between bare ground surfaces and the objects and vegetation above the surface. Since they were originally released in 2005 these data have provided a fundamental resource for the study of active faulting in southern California. This reprocessed dataset includes “classified” (according to ASPRS standards) lidar point cloud data as well as pre-computed half-meter resolution "bare-earth"... more
May 16, 2018
EarthCube Research Coordination Network Workshop - Advancing the Analysis of High Resolution Topography (A2 HRT)
August 21-24, 2018
Omni Interlocken Hotel, Broomfield, CO
We invite you to participate in an NSF-funded EarthCube Research Coordination Network Workshop: Advancing the Analysis of High Resolution Topography (A2 HRT), August 21-24, 2018 in Broomfield, CO. The workshop brings together the Earth science community to discuss technical challenges and cyberinfrastructure requirements to answer scientific questions, coordinate research activities, and share best practices and resources... more
May 16, 2018
A new article - EarthScope’s Laser Vision: Sharing Lidar Data - by Beth Grassi of the EarthScope National Office includes a very nice review of the history of the EarthScope lidar project, the preceding B4 lidar project, and OpenTopography's pioneering role in making these datasets widely available to the Earth science community. The article also highlights lidar applications, including mapping the ground rupture associated with April 4th, 2010 El Mayor–Cucapah earthquake in Mexico (another EarthScope lidar dataset), and educational applications and resources for using these data in a... more
Apr 3, 2018
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of four new datasets collected by the National Center for Airborne Lidar Mapping (NCALM). Three of the datasets were collected as part of NCALM's seed grant program, the fourth was supported by the NSF Critical Zone Observatory program. 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... more
Feb 2, 2018
Come connect with OpenTopography at the 2018 International Lidar Mapping Forum (ILMF) in Denver, February 5-7! OpenTopography will be in booth #914 in the exhibit hall. Our booth will be staffed by members of the OpenTopography team and is a great chance to ask questions, provide feedback, or to discuss lidar, high resolution topography, and geospatial data infrastructure.
Exhibit hall hours are:
Monday, 5 February, 1:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M.
Tuesday, 6 February, 9:00 A.M. – 5:30 P.M.
Friday, 15 December, 9:00 A.M. – 4:30 P.M.
We'll also be giving away the popular I heart lidar stickers so please... more
Dec 11, 2017
Come connect with OpenTopography at the 2017 American Geophysical Union meeting in New Orleans! OpenTopography will be in booth #1730 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:
View point cloud data in 3D directly in your browser! For any OpenTopography job... more
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