We are pleased to announce the release of v. 3.2 of the OpenTopography system. This is a major update that includes several new enhancements to the lidar point cloud processing system to add functionality, speed up processing, and to improve the user experience.
The 8th annual Cyberinfrastructure Summer Institute for Geoscientists (CSIG'11) will be held August 8th -12th, 2011, at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego.
A new Cambridge University Press book released this month highlights a wide range of research in the areas of Geoinformatics and Earth science Cyberinfrastructure. Geoinformatics, Cyberinfrastructure for the Solid Earth Sciences, G.R. Keller and C.
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of an 80 km2 lidar point cloud dataset for the Lemhi River watershed in east-central Idaho.
Due to planned power system maintenance in the SDSC machine room, servers that provide OpenTopography lidar point cloud access and processing will be down on MAy 3rd, 2011. We expect this outage to be complete by 12 pm PDT. If you have questions or concerns please contact info@opentopography.org.
OpenTopography is pleased to announce that lidar point cloud data for the whole Lake Tahoe Basin (941 km2) on the California/Nevada border are now available.
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of 1,556 km2 of lidar point cloud data covering the South Coast and Deschutes regions of Oregon.
As part of OpenTopography's ongoing efforts to provide quick and reliable access to lidar data and derived products (e.g., high-resolution DEMs), our latest system update (OT v. 3.1) features a number of improvements to the data access and processing system designed to improve performance and make OpenTopography more reliable under growing processing loads.
A paper highlighting the Services Oriented Architecture implemented by OpenTopography to enable lidar data access and processing has been accepted for presentation at the 2nd International Conference and Exhibition on Computing for Geospatial Research and Application (COM.Geo) on May 23-25, 2011 in Washington DC.
As OpenTopography continues to grow, adding new data, resources, and links to tools, it became apparent that the site would benefit from a more visible and full-featured search feature. To that end, we've released an integrated search capability, prominently located in the header bar in the upper right-hand part of all webpages.
