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Dec 11, 2017
OpenTopography is guided by an advisory committee which represents OpenTopography users and partners and provides valuable input on decisions related to OpenTopography priorities for data ingestion, interoperability relationships, algorithm and tool deployment, collaborations, and education and community engagement. We seek a graduate student (M.S. or Ph.D.) to join the advisory committee and represent the interests of young scientists who interact with OpenTopography. Responsibilities are participation in one face-to-face advisory committee meeting per year plus occasional conference calls.... more
Nov 22, 2017
Full position description and application via UNAVCO
Position: Data Engineer I
Summary:
UNAVCO seeks a Data Engineer I to support the Geodetic Data Services and OpenTopography programs at UNAVCO headquarters in Boulder, CO. The Data Engineer will be responsible for geospatial data archiving, documentation and user support, and software prototyping and testing. Specifically, this position emphasizes high-resolution topography data collected with technologies such as airborne and terrestrial lidar, and photogrammetry. These datasets are collected by UNAVCO staff and community, or are submitted... more
Aug 8, 2017
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of lidar point cloud and DEM data covering 2,775.65 km2 of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Lidar was collected in the austral summer of 2014-2015 with the objective of studying geomorphic changes over the past decade. The study area includes the McMurdo Dry Valleys (Taylor, Pearse, Wright, Victoria, Mckelvey, Barwick, and Valham valleys, and Bull Pass) and nearby McMurdo Station and Scott Base. Access the dataset here.
Lidar-derived digital surface model (DSM) hillshade of McMurdo sound and station from the 2014-2015 NSF lidar dataset... more
Mar 20, 2017
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the availability of five lidar point cloud datasets, primarily in the areas surrounding Kaikoura, Canterbury, New Zealand. The Kaikoura region was hit by a M7.8 earthquake on the 14th of November, 2016. These data were collected prior to the earthquake and complement the previously posted Kaikoura, Canterbury, New Zealand 2012 dataset. The inclusion of these datasets in OpenTopography is a continuation of our collaboration with Land Information New Zealand (LINZ). The data were collected by AAM NZ, Aerial Surveys and their subcontractors.
New datasets... more
Mar 7, 2017
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, in collaboration with Boulder, CO-based UNAVCO and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) have been awarded a NASA ACCESS grant to develop a cyberinfrastructure platform for discovery, access, and visualization of data from NASA’s ICESat and upcoming ICESat-2 laser altimeter missions.
ICESat and ICESat-2 (scheduled for launch in 2018) measure changes in the volume of Earth’s ice sheets, sea-ice thickness, sea-level height, the structure of forest and brushland... more
Feb 1, 2017
OpenTopography is proud to announce the availability of three new global topographic datasets:
SRTM GL1 (30m Ellipsoidal) is a version of the popular Shuttle Radar Topography Mission dataset where elevation values are WGS84 ellipsoidal height as opposed to the standard orthometric, or geoid-referenced, elevation. OpenTopography constructed this dataset by subtracting the EGM96 geoid model from the standard SRTM GL1 data. This dataset was produced primarily to support the InSAR community and their need for ellipsoidal referenced DEMs for terrain correction, although we suspect other users... more
Dec 9, 2016
Continuing our collaboration with Land Information New Zealand (LINZ), OpenTopography is pleased to announce the availability of lidar point cloud data from the coast near Kaikoura, Northern Canterbury, New Zealand. These data cover the region heavily impacted by the 14 November 2016 M7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake and represent an important topographic measure of the landscape prior to the significant vertical and horizontal displacements that occurred during the event. The data were collected by Aerial Surveys and their subcontractors, and were provided to OpenTopography by LINZ.
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Dec 9, 2016
Come connect with OpenTopography at the 2016 American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco! OpenTopography will be in booth #513 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.
Exhibit hall hours are:
Monday, 12 December, 6:00 P.M.-8:00 P.M. (Ice Breaker Reception)
Tuesday-Thursday, 13-15 December, 9:30 A.M.–5:00 P.M.... more
Nov 2, 2016
OpenTopography is happy to announce the release of over a dozen new datasets. Eight of these datasets were collected by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) as part of their 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 of California, Berkeley. The release of these data via... more
Sep 9, 2016
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of two new photogrammetric datasets derived from the Pleiades 1A and 1B satellites. These datasets are unique among those provided through OpenTopography, as the point clouds were created using stereo imagery taken from space and not using lidar technology.
El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake, Pleiades 2014
On April 4, 2010 a 7.2 Mw earthquake shook upper Baja California, just south of the US-Mexico border. The earthquake resulted in extensive damage to buildings in the area, causing an estimated $1.15 billion in damage. For more information on the... more
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