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Thirteen Datasets from Eight States Available

Jan 29, 2013

OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of thirteen datasets collected by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) over areas of Arizona, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. NCALM is an 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.

Reduced OpenTopography Support During Holiday Break

Dec 20, 2012

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 24th 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. If you have questions or concerns please email info@opentopography.org and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

OpenTopography at 2012 AGU Meeting

Dec 4, 2012

The OpenTopography is at the 2012 American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in San Francisco this week. Find us at the following events:

OpenTopography booth in the exhibit hall - We're sharing a booth with NCALM again this year. Booth #101 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 be giving away these:

Lidar Datasets from Virginia, California, Montana, Illinois, Oregon and Utah Available

Nov 28, 2012

We are pleased to announce the release several new datasets including new community contributed data from Virginia, updates to the existing Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) dataset and nine new NCALM datasets from portions of California, Illinois, Montana and Utah. These data cover a wide range of geologic environments including Crater Lake National Park, Death Valley National Park, the Northern California Coast Range, Big Sky in Montana and Raplee Ridge Anticline in Utah.

OpenTopography Software Updates and Site Improvements

Nov 26, 2012

Over the past few months we have made several updates and improvements to OpenTopography. Some of these updates are visible to OpenTopography users while many are on the backend including bug, fixes, system software updates, and other modifications to improve stability, processing speed, and new feature integration. A summary of the recent updates made in OpenTopography v. 3.9 and 3.10 releases:

User Interface:

New Point Cloud Data Available from Puerto Rico, Oregon, California and Colorado

Oct 26, 2012

Five datasets covering areas of Puerto Rico, Oregon, California and Colorado are now available through the OpenTopography portal. Data were collected for various purposes including refining algorithms for vegetation classification, debris flow sediment storage and mechanics, and studying river terrace formation and abandonment.

Data Available in Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida and Missouri

Sep 18, 2012

OpenTopography has recently released six new datasets covering portions of Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida and Missouri. Five of the datasets were collected by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) and are now available as part of an ongoing process to make NCALM data available through OpenTopography. The sixth dataset was collected for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) over the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ), which spans the Arkansas/Missouri border.

Eight Datasets Available for the Channel Islands, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, New Mexico and Texas

Aug 27, 2012

We are pleased to announce the release eight new datasets covering various unique areas of the United States. Seven of the datasets were collected by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) for hydrological and biological studies in Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, New Mexico and Texas. The Channel Islands dataset was collected for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and includes all of the islands of Channel Islands National Park: San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Anacapa, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz.

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