OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of a lidar dataset covering about 2,400 km2 of New Zealand's Manawatu - Whanganui region of the North Island. Data were collected in 2015/2016 and were re-supplied by Aerial Surveys for Land Information New Zealand. Peripheral data not part of the original survey obtained by Horizons (Manawatu-Wanganui) Regional Council is included in this collection.
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of a set of 2 meter DEMs from the 2013 Baluchistan 7.7 Mw earthquake. This dataset offers a unique opportunity to analyze topography both before and after the September 2013 seismic event. The DEMs were generated from in-track stereo imagery, as well as DEMs constructed from mixed pairs of non-in-track stereo images. A complete description of the generation of this dataset and the images that were used to construct the DEMs can be found in:
OpenTopography is happy to announce the release of approximately 13,000 km2 of lidar throughout Utah, and parts of Idaho & Colorado.
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of a new lidar dataset covering approximately 63 square km of the Guadalupe Mountains and the McKittrick Canyon Wilderness Study Area in New Mexico and Texas. The data were collected through an NCALM SEED grant to Alexander Neely (PSU) for the quantification of rock strength controls on landscape morphology. NCALM is an NSF-funded center that supports the use of airborne laser mapping technology (a.k.a.
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of a lidar dataset covering about 2,200 km2 of New Zealand's Canterbury region. The data were collected in 2016 and 2017 by Aerial Surveys for the Environment Canterbury Regional Council (ECAN).
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of a new lidar dataset covering approximately 545 square km of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. The data were collected by NCALM for Dr. Wetherbee Dorshow and Dr. Wirt Wills to help reconstruct the three dimensional landscape, as well as model land use, in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. NCALM is an NSF-funded center that supports the use of airborne laser mapping technology (a.k.a.
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of a new lidar dataset covering approximately 28 km of the central San Andreas Fault near Parkfield, California. The data were collected as part of NCALM's seed grant program for Michael Vadman at Virginia Tech University. NCALM is an NSF-funded center that supports the use of airborne laser mapping technology (a.k.a.
OpenTopography is happy to formally announce the release of new web-based functionality for on-demand vertical differencing (a.k.a. change detection) of multi-temporal high resolution topographic data.
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of three new lidar datasets covering about 3,092 km2 of New Zealand's South Island: Mackenzie, Canterbury; Otago; and Queenstown. The data were collected in 2015 and 2016 by Aerial Surveys for the Otago Regional Council and Genesis Energy Limited, respectively.
A recent StateScoop Radio GIS Addressed podcast tackled the topic of 3D elevation data collected with lidar. StateScoop is a website that "reports on news and events impacting technology decisions in state and local government", and the podcast discusses the power of lidar and 3D elevation data from a statewide mapping and GIS program perspective.
