OpenTopography team members Ramon Arrowsmith and Christopher Crosby are part of a working group at the USGS Powell Center in Fort Collins, CO focused on Exploiting high-resolution topography for advancing the understanding of mass and energy transfer across landscapes: O
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of seven new lidar datasets collected by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) in areas of Arizona, California, Mississippi, Oregon, and Utah. NCALM is a NSF-funded center that supports the use of airborne laser mapping technology (a.k.a.
This summer, OpenTopography is hosting interns from local San Diego area high schools as part of the San Diego Supercomputer Center's Research Experience for High School Students (REHS) program.
Congratulations to Emily Kleber, a Geospatial Data Specialist for OpenTopography, on receiving a National Science Foundation (NSF) East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Fellowship to study earthquakes in Japan this summer.
The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) obtained 90 meter (3 arc-second) resolution data on a near-global scale (between 56 degrees South and 60 degrees North latitude) and 30 meter (1 arc-second) resolution over United States, providing a valuable global topographic dataset. The SRTM data were collected during an 11-day mission in February of 2000 from a radar system onboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor. The SRTM project was led by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and NASA.
OpenTopography has received a Windows Azure for Research Award from Microsoft Research. The Windows Azure for Research program "facilitates and accelerates scholarly and scientific research by enabling researchers to use the power of Windows Azure to perform big data computations in the cloud".
OpenTopography recently released five new point cloud datasets collected over parts of the Big Island and Kauai in Hawaii. These datasets were collected in 2013 by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM). NCALM is a 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 & Environmental Engineering, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston and the Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley.
On account of the winter holiday break and San Diego Supercomputer Center and University of California, San Diego closures, OpenTopography will be providing reduced support between December 21st and January 1st. 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. If you have questions or concerns please email info@opentopography.org and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
OpenTopography is in San Francisco this week for the 2013 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 9-13th, 2013. Find us at the following events:
OpenTopography booth in the exhibit hall - We're sharing a booth with NCALM again this year. Booth #119 in "NSF Row". Stop by to see OT demos, get updates on the latest datasets, and to talk with the OT team. We'll also have more of the extremely popular "I Heart Lidar" stickers:
