OpenTopography's Spring 2025 Webinar Series
OpenTopography invites you to join us for a series of weekly, hour-long webinars in March 2025. During the webinars, we will teach the basics of high resolution topography, including lidar and structure from motion photogrammetry, and demonstrate how to use OpenTopography's growing set of on-demand processing tools. The webinars will feature lectures on background material and hands-on demonstrations. Participants will have the opportunity to use OpenTopography's tools to access, process and visualize topography data.
The target audience for these webinars is graduate students and faculty who are beginning to use lidar and other topography data in their research and teaching activities. We anticipate that the webinars will be of interest to those outside of academia who use topography data for commercial, governmental, and hobby applications.
Webinars are free to attend. Attendees must sign-up here . Attendees will receive a Zoom link with connection information before the webinar series begins.
All webinars will be on Wednesdays from 1–2 PM Eastern Time / 10–11 AM Pacific Time. Webinars will be recorded and posted on OpenTopography's YouTube channel (and linked in the table below) following the event.
Webinars will be lead by members of the OpenTopography team and will cover the following topics:
| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| March 5, 2025 | Introduction to OpenTopography: Overview of OpenTopography, OT's data and processes services, and an overview of OpenTopography's resources for getting started |
| March 12, 2025 | Introduction to point clouds: brief introduction to lidar data basics and Structure-from-motion, short demonstration of using Potree to visualize point clouds & point cloud access via OT |
| March 19, 2025 | Introduction to Digital Elevation Models : Types of rasters from topography data (DEMs, DTMs, DSMs), interpolation techniques & how to access and process high resolution and global DEMs on OT |
| March 26, 2025 | Introduction to topographic differencing: Vertical and 3D differencing, uncertainty in vertical differencing & differencing via OT's portal |