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Sep 16, 2014
OpenTopography team members Ramon Arrowsmith and Christopher Crosby are part of a working group at the USGS Powell Center in Fort Collins, CO focused on Exploiting high-resolution topography for advancing the understanding of mass and energy transfer across landscapes: Opportunities, challenges, and needs.
The working group is meeting three times over the course of a two year period (spring and fall 2014 and summer 2015) at the Powell Center facility in Fort Collins. The goal of the Powell Center is to serve as a catalyst for innovative thinking in Earth system science research by providing... more
Aug 18, 2014
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of seven new lidar datasets collected by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) in areas of Arizona, California, Mississippi, Oregon, and Utah. NCALM is a 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. Six of the datasets were collected... more
Aug 5, 2014
This summer, OpenTopography is hosting interns from local San Diego area high schools as part of the San Diego Supercomputer Center's Research Experience for High School Students (REHS) program. In its fifth year, students in the REHS program "join multidisciplinary research teams and staffers at the Center to gain experience across a wide array of computational research." The ultimate goal of the program is to Make Computational Science Super Cool!.
The interns working with OpenTopography staff are focused on mining OpenTopography's body of anonymous usage metrics to identify trends in user... more
Jul 31, 2014
A new publication by OpenTopography team members and collaborators from the CyberGIS project and Utah State University was published this month in the proceedings of the XSEDE conference.
Citation:
Choonhan Youn, Viswanath Nandigam, Minh Phan, David Tarboton, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, Chaitan Baru, Christopher Crosby, Anand Padmanabhan, and Shaowen Wang. 2014. Leveraging XSEDE HPC resources to address computational challenges with high-resolution topography data. In Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE '14). ACM, New York, NY,... more
Apr 29, 2014
Congratulations to Emily Kleber, a Geospatial Data Specialist for OpenTopography, on receiving a National Science Foundation (NSF) East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Fellowship to study earthquakes in Japan this summer. In addition to her graduate work at ASU with OpenTopography Co-I Ramon Arrowsmith, Emily supports several OpenTopography activities including data ingestion, user support, and educational content development. Previous to starting her graduate work at ASU, Emily worked full time at the San Diego Supercomputer Center where OpenTopography is based.
Full ASU School... more
Apr 8, 2014
The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) obtained 90 meter (3 arc-second) resolution data on a near-global scale (between 56 degrees South and 60 degrees North latitude) and 30 meter (1 arc-second) resolution over United States, providing a valuable global topographic dataset. The SRTM data were collected during an 11-day mission in February of 2000 from a radar system onboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor. The SRTM project was led by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and NASA.
OpenTopography is now hosting version 3.0 (SRTM Plus) of the SRTM dataset released in November... more
Apr 3, 2014
OpenTopography has received a Windows Azure for Research Award from Microsoft Research. The Windows Azure for Research program "facilitates and accelerates scholarly and scientific research by enabling researchers to use the power of Windows Azure to perform big data computations in the cloud".
The award grants OpenTopography a one-year allocation of Windows Azure cloud resources, which we plan to use to evaluate distributed, on-demand, scalable compute infrastructure solutions for processing data from the OpenTopography facility's growing archive. We will start by deploying IaaS (... more
Jan 27, 2014
OpenTopography recently released five new point cloud datasets collected over parts of the Big Island and Kauai in Hawaii. These datasets were collected in 2013 by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM). NCALM is a 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. These two datasets were... more
Dec 21, 2013
On account of the winter holiday break and San Diego Supercomputer Center and University of California, San Diego closures, OpenTopography will be providing reduced support between December 21st 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 9, 2013
OpenTopography is in San Francisco this week for the 2013 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 9-13th, 2013. Find us at the following events:
OpenTopography booth in the exhibit hall - We're sharing a booth with NCALM again this year. Booth #119 in "NSF Row". Stop by to see OT demos, get updates on the latest datasets, and to talk with the OT team. We'll also have more of the extremely popular "I Heart Lidar" stickers:
Posters:
ED31A-0743. Leveraging High Resolution Topography for Education and Outreach: Updates to OpenTopography to make EarthScope and Other Lidar Datasets more... more
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