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Dec 2, 2013
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of three new datasets covering areas of California, Colorado and Florida. These datasets were collected by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) during 2010 - 2012 campaigns. 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.... more
Nov 22, 2013
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of almost 50,000 square kilometers of point cloud and raster data covering the state of Indiana. The recently released Indiana 2011-2013 Statewide Lidar represents a joint effort to make statewide data available by several Indiana state and federal agencies as well as private companies and individuals through a service agreement with OpenTopography. The robust cyberinfrastructure and user-friendly interface of OpenTopography provide a one stop shop for the statewide survey data catering to a variety of users requiring a range of lidar... more
Oct 2, 2013
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
Sep 27, 2013
OpenTopography in collaboration with the Southern California Earthquake Center, UNAVCO and EarthScope will be hosting a short course this coming November 4-6, 2013 at the San Diego Supercomputer Center in La Jolla, California. The course will focus on lidar technology, data processing and analysis techniques. We will emphasize fault trace and geomorphic mapping applications, integration with other geospatial data, data visualization and analysis approaches.
More information on the course and a link to the application are available via the short course webpage and this course announcement.... more
Aug 13, 2013
OpenTopography recently released our first near-global satellite dataset as well as 20 new Google Earth files. The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) is a near-global 90 meter resolution raster dataset. New Google Earth lidar imagery files are for lidar datasets collected by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) between 2003 and 2007..
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data
The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) obtained 90 meter resolution data on a near-global scale to generate the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of Earth. SRTM... more
Jul 8, 2013
The US Geological Survey recently discontinued delivering LiDAR data through the CLICK (Center for LiDAR Information Coordination and Knowledge) interface. While CLICK was active, the OpenTopography Find Data page provided users the ability to discover and easily access LiDAR data available from the USGS archive. Now that CLICK is no longer active, OpenTopography has removed this functionality from our site. USGS has transitioned lidar data distribution to the EarthExplorer system, so users seeking USGS hosted lidar will need to visit that site to discover and access data. The USGS Earth... more
Jun 12, 2013
OpenTopography is pleased to announce that we've completed our work to ingest and provide open access to all National Science Foundation funded lidar datasets collected by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) between 2003 - 2012. In total, there are now 116 NCALM point cloud lidar datasets available via OpenTopography - greater than 126 billion lidar points over more than 22,000 km2 of North America. Public and open access to this rich catalog of high-resolution topography data represents an outstanding and unprecedented opportunity to explore various landscapes and... more
May 29, 2013
OpenTopography recently released five new point cloud datasets collected over areas of Owens Valley (CA), the Colorado Rockies, Mt. Rainier National Park (WA) and Yellowstone National Park (WY). These datasets were collected in 2010 and 2012 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... more
May 22, 2013
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of point cloud and raster data supporting ongoing seismic hazard research surrounding the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, Central Coast California. The datasets were provided by Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) and are comprised of three separate surveys: Diablo Canyon (2010), Los Osos (2011), and San Simeon (2013). The datasets were acquired by Watershed Sciences, Inc. (WSI) as part of the Diablo Canyon Power Plant (DCPP) Long Term Seismic Program (LTSP). Watershed Sciences, Inc. (WSI) collected Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)... more
May 14, 2013
Eight datasets from six states were recently released by OpenTopography covering areas of California, Maine, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Utah. These data include four Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) datasets, three National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) datasets and one dataset from the Utah Geological Survey.
Critical Zone Observatory Datasets:
Under OpenTopography's memorandum of understanding with the six NSF Critical Zone Observatories, we will be hosting all lidar data products collected to support research at the CZO sites. The CZOs are environmental... more
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