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May 14, 2012
We are pleased to announce that four new point clouds datasets have been posted to OpenTopography. The datasets were collected by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) and cover portions of California, Florida, Idaho and North Carolina. These datasets were collected for a variety of scientific purposes including identifying Scrub-Jay habitat, detecting a landscape's response to tectonics and looking at forest leaf structure.
National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping Datasets:
NCALM is an NSF-funded center that supports the use of airborne laser mapping technology (a.k.a.... more
May 8, 2012
Now available through OpenTopography are twelve new airborne and terrestrial lidar datasets. Eight airborne datasets covering areas of Idaho are provided by the Idaho Lidar Consortium, US Forest Service, and several affiliated institutions and agencies. This release also includes four terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) datasets collected to accurately image surface rupture from earthquakes in Nevada and Mexico.
Idaho Lidar Consortium (ILC) Datasets
OpenTopography is working with the Idaho Lidar Consortium to provide online access to lidar data collected for earth and ecological studies in that... more
Apr 26, 2012
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of another installment of lidar data from the Oregon Department of Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) and two new datasets from the United States Forest Service's Rocky Mountain Research Station.
Willamette Valley, Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Lidar Program Data:
With the installment of the Willamette Valley portion of the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Lidar Program dataset, the DOGAMI dataset now contains an impressive ~192 billion points, covering an area of 18,664.3 square kilometers. This dataset... more
Apr 10, 2012
OpenTopography is happy to announce several new system updates released this past Friday. These updates focus on metadata presentation, as well as some important changes to bulk data access via OpenTopography. Details:
Enhanced metadata pages for all datasets: Each dataset in OpenTopography now has an expanded and comprehensive metadata page that provides an overview of the dataset, links to the project survey report, dataset outline, as well as other related information. Click the "Full Metadata" link on each dataset page to access the metadata information.
Each dataset metadata record... more
Apr 4, 2012
We are pleased to announce the release of seven new lidar point cloud datasets covering areas in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Michigan, Washington State, and British Columbia. These data cover a diverse array of geographic areas and feature high-resolution topography for active volcanic regions, fluvial systems, and tectonically active areas.
National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping datasets:
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 &... more
Mar 30, 2012
Nancy West and Shelley Olds from the UNAVCO education and outreach program are in Indianapolis this weekend for the 2012 National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) National Conference. Today, they'll be presenting a one-hour session on how lidar derived imagery and Google Earth can be used in the classroom to teach students about earth surface processes. Their demonstrations will highlight OpenTopography hosted lidar data and the Google Earth-base lidar visualizations we provide.
Friday, March 30 2:00-3:00 PM
What's Under the Shrubbery? Study Erosion, Landslides, Dinosaur Tracks, and More... more
Mar 7, 2012
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of twelve new lidar point cloud datasets covering a range of landscapes and geologic features in seven different states. These data were collected for a variety of scientific applications, and feature high-resolution topography for dune fields, active faults, and various watersheds and fluvial systems.
National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping datasets:
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 &... more
Mar 7, 2012
Last week OpenTopography rolled out our latest round of software updates (OT version 3.6), which includes several changes to the OT portal user interface and data access features, as well as many updates behind the scenes to our systems and databases. A summary of new features and updates in this release:
User Interface and Data Access:
Updates to the dataset listing pages (Point Cloud, Standard DEMs, and Google Earth Image Overlays) including the inclusion of a "filter bar" which allows users to filter datasets by collection platform (e.g., airborne or terrestrial), dataset funder and... more
Feb 2, 2012
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the availability of more than 10,000 km2 of lidar point cloud data from coastal Oregon. These data, totaling more than 100 billion lidar returns, cover the full extent of the Oregon coast, from the California border to the mouth of the Columbia River. The data were collected by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) Lidar Program, and are available through OpenTopography as part of our ongoing lidar data hosting partnership with DOGAMI.
OpenTopography's full catalog of DOGAMI Oregon lidar data (currently 12,678 km2) can be... more
Dec 21, 2011
It has been a busy fall at OpenTopography, with seemingly non-stop meetings, workshops and conferences to keep us busy. But fortunately the team has also been cranking away at adding significant improvements to the OT system. Over the past several months we've had two major software and system updates that added many features to OT, some of which are visible to users, while others are important updates to our underlying data management and processing systems. If you are a regular OT user you've likely noticed changes to the OT user interface as well as significant reductions in data access... more
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