News
Nov 28, 2012
We are pleased to announce the release several new datasets including new community contributed data from Virginia, updates to the existing Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) dataset and nine new NCALM datasets from portions of California, Illinois, Montana and Utah. These data cover a wide range of geologic environments including Crater Lake National Park, Death Valley National Park, the Northern California Coast Range, Big Sky in Montana and Raplee Ridge Anticline in Utah. In addition to adding new data, the USGS CLICK (Center for LiDAR Information Coordination and... more
Nov 26, 2012
Over the past few months we have made several updates and improvements to OpenTopography. Some of these updates are visible to OpenTopography users while many are on the backend including bug, fixes, system software updates, and other modifications to improve stability, processing speed, and new feature integration. A summary of the recent updates made in OpenTopography v. 3.9 and 3.10 releases:
User Interface:
All new data visualization services including the option of adding color ramps to shaded relief images generated by OT.
Increase in processing quotas for registered and power users... more
Oct 26, 2012
Five datasets covering areas of Puerto Rico, Oregon, California and Colorado are now available through the OpenTopography portal. Data were collected for various purposes including refining algorithms for vegetation classification, debris flow sediment storage and mechanics, and studying river terrace formation and abandonment.
Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory Data::
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
Sep 18, 2012
OpenTopography has recently released six new datasets covering portions of Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida and Missouri. Five of the datasets were collected by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) and are now available as part of an ongoing process to make NCALM data available through OpenTopography. The sixth dataset was collected for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) over the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ), which spans the Arkansas/Missouri border.
National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM):
NCALM is an NSF-funded center that supports the use of... more
Aug 27, 2012
We are pleased to announce the release eight new datasets covering various unique areas of the United States. Seven of the datasets were collected by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) for hydrological and biological studies in Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, New Mexico and Texas. The Channel Islands dataset was collected for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and includes all of the islands of Channel Islands National Park: San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Anacapa, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz.
National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM):
NCALM is an NSF-funded center that... more
Jul 27, 2012
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of point cloud data for the Jemez Basin Critical Zone Observatory in New Mexico as well as an update to the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Lidar Program dataset.
Jemez River Basin Critical Zone Observatory Data::
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 laboratories established to study the chemical, physical and biological processes that shape the... more
Jul 26, 2012
We are pleased to announce the release of OpenTopography v.3.8 that includes several exciting improvements to the user interface designed to streamline data discovery and access. We've rearranged the data discovery map and data access pages to use the full width of the OT website, and have also made changes to make it easier to access various data products and metadata.
Also part of the OT v.3.8 release is a new feature to allow users to register their datasets with OT. Modeled after the OpenTopography Tool Registry, the OpenTopography Data Contribution module allows users to register... more
Jul 3, 2012
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of four new datasets collected by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM). These four data sets cover areas in the states of Florida, Oregon, and New Hampshire and were collected for a variety of scientific purposes including identifying Gopher Tortoise habitat, monitoring hurricane frequency and analyzing the effects of natural and man-made dams.
New Datasets:
Geomorphic Effects of Landslide Dams on the Owyhee River, Oregon
West Swanzey, NH: Geomorphic Response to Dam Removal, Ashuelot River
Bald Point, FL: Hurricane Frequency... more
Jun 7, 2012
Applicants Asked to Apply by June 15
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, will host its ninth annual Cyberinfrastructure Summer Institute for Geoscientists (CSIG'12) August 6-10. Since 2004, CSIG has been funded each year by a grant from the Earth Science Division (EAR) of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The theme for CSIG'12 is "Geoinformatics Education and Training for the 21st Century Geoscience Workforce," reflecting the emphasis on preparing geoscientists for cyber-enabled research and education initiatives. As in prior years, CSIG'... more
May 14, 2012
We are pleased to announce the release of version 3.7 of the OpenTopography system. This update includes improvements to the data selection interface, and dataset metadata pages.
Digital Object Identifiers:
A noteworthy component of this release is the introduction of a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for each OpenTopography hosted dataset. DOIs are persistent identifiers that were originally developed for publications, but are increasingly being used for scientific datatsets. DOIs are managed through time and will not change even if the object is moved or renamed; this means that... more
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