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Introducing OT+ (OpenTopography Plus)

Mar 18, 2024

Updated August 27th, 2024

OpenTopography is happy to announce a new subscription-based program (OT+) to enable access to our platform of user-friendly services applied to high resolution lidar topography data covering the vast majority of the US’s lower 48, Hawaii, and territories.

Users will have access to OpenTopography’s user-friendly processing tools to generate and download point clouds, digital elevation models, topographic hillshades, contour lines, and other visualizations with just a few mouse clicks.

Seven new and updated New Zealand lidar datasets available

Mar 6, 2024

Five new, and two updated Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) datasets are now available through OpenTopography. These datasets are available through an ongoing collaboration between OpenTopography and LINZ as part of the LINZ National Elevation Program. These datasets collectively add over 18,000 km2 of high resolution topographic data over New Zealand (see areas in red on map below).

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New Waikato, Canterbury, and Manawatu - Whanganui, New Zealand Lidar Data

Jan 8, 2024

Three new Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) datasets are now available through OpenTopography. These datasets are available through an ongoing collaboration between OpenTopography and LINZ that makes OpenTopography the primary distribution platform for point cloud data collected as part of the LINZ National Elevation Program. These new datasets collectively add over 9,300 km2 of high resolution topographic data (see areas in red in figure below).

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Reduced OpenTopography support during the holidays

Dec 22, 2023

On account of the winter holiday break and the San Diego Supercomputer Center at University of California, San Diego closure, OpenTopography will be operating with reduced support between December 23rd and January 2nd. OpenTopography systems will be fully available and users may run jobs as normal. However responses to emails, 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.

New LINZ Datasets Now Available

Nov 16, 2023

Two new Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) datasets are now available through OpenTopography. These datasets are available through an ongoing collaboration between OpenTopography and LINZ that makes OpenTopography the primary distribution platform for point cloud data collected as part of the LINZ National Elevation Program. These datasets collectively add almost 4,800 km2 of high resolution topographic data over the Central Otago Region of the South Island (see areas in red in figure below).

Recent New and Updated LINZ Datasets

Nov 9, 2023

Over the past several months, OpenTopography has been working hard to add new datasets, and append more data to previously published projects over New Zealand. These datasets are available through an ongoing collaboration between OpenTopography and LINZ that makes OpenTopography the primary distribution platform for point cloud data collected as part of the LINZ National Elevation Program.

On-Demand Vertical Differencing of USGS 3DEP and NOAA Lidar Topography

Oct 25, 2023

OpenTopography has expanded our on-demand vertical differencing (a.k.a. topographic change detection) tools to the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) coastal lidar collections. This update makes it possible to use OpenTopography's tools to compute topographic change for more than 20% of the contiguous United States that are covered by more than one high resolution lidar topographic dataset.

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