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New OpenTopography Data Discovery Interface Released (OT v 3.0)

Feb 18, 2011

OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release (OT v 3.0) of an updated data discovery interface which we hope will make it easier to for users to learn about hosted data and to access available data products. The new interface continues to rely on the familiar Google Maps display, but now users are able to select an area on the map, discover data that covers that area, and then link directly to the appropriate page to download and process data. Results for a selected area appear below the map.

System Updates Planned Mon, Feb 14th

Feb 14, 2011

OpenTopography will be making a number of system updates to both our user interface and back-end systems on the evening of Monday, February 14th. During this time, access to the OpenTopography Data tab may be occasionally impeded. Access to other parts of the OpenTopography site should not be impaired. We hope that the system will be back to normal by Tuesday morning, February 5th. We apologize for the inconvenience. Thank you.

OpenTopography at GSA Penrose Conference on Google Earth

Jan 5, 2011

OpenTopography team members Chris Crosby (SDSC) and Sarah Robinson (ASU) are visiting the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA this week for the Geological Society of America Penrose Conference: Google Earth: Visualizing the Possibilities for Geoscience Education and Research.

Reduced OpenTopography Support During Holiday Break

Dec 20, 2010

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 20th 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.

El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake (Mexico) and Several Other LiDAR Datasets Released

Dec 20, 2010

OpenTopography is happy to announce the release of five new LiDAR point cloud datasets. These data cover a range of spatial scales, geographic areas, and acquisition technologies. This release includes two small footprint airborne LiDAR datasets, including the highly anticipated El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake (4 April 2010) Rupture LiDAR Scan covering 372 km² just south of the US/Mexican border in northern Baja, Mexico.

New OpenTopography Tool Registry - Contribute or Discover Software

Dec 13, 2010

OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of our new Tool Registry. The OpenTopography Tool Registry provides a community populated clearinghouse of software, utilities, and tools oriented towards high-resolution topography data (e.g. collected with LiDAR technology) handling, processing, visualization, and analysis. The Tool Registry is designed to facilitate the high-resolution topography user community's ability to share and discover software relevant to their research.

OpenTopography at 2010 AGU Fall Meeting

Dec 7, 2010

The annual American Geophysical Union fall meeting will run December 13th to 17th, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. OpenTopography will be active at the meeting via our booth in the Exhibit Hall, and through presentations in various scientific sessions:

Paper on Cloud-Based Approach for Gridding LiDAR Data Presented at CloudCom Conference

Dec 1, 2010

OpenTopography team member Sriram Krishnan presented a paper this week at the 2nd annual IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2010) in Indianapolis on LiDAR digital elevation model (DEM) generation using the cloud-based

OpenTopography Part of $4.4 Million Award To Develop a Geographical Information Science Framework

Nov 12, 2010

UCSD Press Release issued November 10th, 2010:

Standard Digital Elevation Model (DEM) System Outage Planned, Fri, Nov. 12th

Nov 11, 2010

OpenTopography will be performing maintenance on servers associated with our standard DEM download system on Friday, November 12th. During this time, DEM downloads will be unavailable. Please check the "LiDAR System Status" box in the left hand menu under the "Data" tab for updated information related to the outage.

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