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Apr 7, 2013
OpenTopography will be at the 2013 European Geosciences Union (EGU) Meeting this week in Vienna, Austria:
Session: ESSI1.5 - 3D Spatial Data, Analysis, Visualization and Infrastructures in Geosciences - From 3D Point Clouds to Information; Fri, 12 Apr, 08:30 - 12:00 / Room R11
Talk: OpenTopography: Enabling Online Access to High-Resolution Lidar Topography Data and Processing Tools; Christopher Crosby, Viswanath Nandigam, Chaitan Baru, and J Ramon Arrowsmith; Fri, 12 Apr, 08:30 - 08:45.
Also in the same session is a presentation related to complementary work being performed by our partners... more
Apr 1, 2013
OpenTopography has released ten datasets covering a small area in Brazil as well as the US states of Alaska, California, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon. These data cover a diverse range of topographic environments and were collected to study active tectonics, volcanic areas, coastal geomorphology and hydrology.
Coastal Dune Fields of Garopaba and Vila Nova, Santa Catarina State, Brazil
OpenTopography recently posted our first dataset in the Southern Hemisphere! This small dataset covers a 10 square kilometer area of two coastal dune fields (Garopaba and Vila Nova) in southern Brazil and... more
Mar 4, 2013
OpenTopography is a partner on a recently awarded National Science Foundation grant to develop software tools to make it easier for scientists to analyze lidar point cloud data. The collaborative research (NSF awards 1226145 & 1226127 is led by Nancy Glenn (Idaho State University's Department of Geosciences Boise Center Aerospace Laboratory), Andrew Hudak (U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station), and Joe Wheaton (Utah State University).
This collaborative project between Idaho State University (ISU), Utah State University (USU), and USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station (... more
Feb 28, 2013
Four datasets covering areas of Northern Vermont, Mojave Desert, Northern California Coast Range, and Southern New Hampshire are now available through OpenTopography.
Missisquoi Watershed Data
The Missisquoi Watershed LiDAR data were provided by the University of Vermont's Spatial Analysis Laboratory. The data were acquired by Photoscience and subsequently reviewed by the United Stated Geological Survey (USGS) and The University of Vermont. The data are made available on OpenTopography through a grant from AmericaView, a nationwide consortium for remote sensing education, research and... more
Feb 12, 2013
A new Geological Society of America Special Paper volume entitled, Google Earth and Virtual Visualizations in Geoscience Education and Research includes a paper on OpenTopography's work to make lidar-derived imagery viewable in Google Earth:
Crosby, C.J., 2012, Lidar and Google Earth: Simplifying Access to High-Resolution Topography Data, in, Google Earth and Virtual Visualizations in Geoscience Education and Research, edited by S.J. Whitmeyer, D.G. De Paor, J. Bailey, and T. Ornduff, Geological Society of America Special Paper 492, 37-48.
Abstract:
High-resolution topography data acquired... more
Jan 29, 2013
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of thirteen datasets collected by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) over areas of Arizona, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. 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. Nine... more
Jan 15, 2013
We are pleased to announce the release four datasets collected by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) over areas of California, Colorado, Idaho and North Carolina. 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. One dataset was collected under NCALM's graduate student seed... more
Dec 20, 2012
On account of the winter holiday break and San Diego Supercomputer Center and University of California, San Diego campus-wide closures, OpenTopography will be providing reduced support between December 24th and January 2nd. 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 you patience and happy holidays from the OpenTopography Team!
Dec 5, 2012
NSF Renews Funding for National OpenTopography Project
Internet-based High-Resolution Topographic Data Facility Led by SDSC and ASU
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has renewed funding for OpenTopography, an Internet-based project that provides open and free access to high-resolution topographic data collected by technologies such as LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging).
OpenTopography is managed by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, and Arizona State University's (ASU) School of Earth and Space Exploration. The three-year renewal under... more
Dec 4, 2012
The OpenTopography is at the 2012 American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in San Francisco this week. Find us at the following events:
OpenTopography booth in the exhibit hall - We're sharing a booth with NCALM again this year. Booth #101 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 be giving away these:
Posters:
Tuesday, 8:00 AM - 12:20 PM, Hall A-C (Moscone South), IN21B-1480: A framework for integration of scientific applications into the OpenTopography workflow; Viswanath Nandigam; Christopher Crosby; Chaitan Baru... more
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