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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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
UCSD Press Release issued November 10th, 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.
The San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, has announced a new and unique volunteer internship program for undergraduate students entitled Computational Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU).
