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.
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 24th 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.
Connect with OpenTopography at the 2018 American Geophysical Union meeting in Washington D.C.! OpenTopography will be in booth #503 on "NSF Street" in the exhibit hall. The booth is shared with the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM). Our booth is staffed by the OpenTopography team and community members, and is a great chance to ask questions, provide feedback, or to discuss lidar, high resolution topography, and cyberinfrastructure.
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of four new lidar datasets covering about 1,790 km2 of the north coast of New Zealand's South Island: Blenheim, the Wairau valley region, and lower Awatere river corridor; Golden Bay, including Aorere Extension, Farewell Spit, Lee Dam, and St. Arnaud; Abel Tasman and Golden Bay; and Richmond and Motueka.
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of three new datasets covering areas of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, Utah's Diamond Fork River, and Arizona's Coconino National Forest near Flagstaff. They were collected as part of NCALM's seed grant program. NCALM is an NSF-funded center that supports the use of airborne laser mapping technology (a.k.a.
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the availability of lidar point cloud data from the Kilauea volcano, Hawaii, USA from early June, 2018 and July, 2018 following the beginning of its most recent activity on May 3, 2018.
A new paper, authored by OpenTopography staff, has been published recently that utilizes lidar and high resolution differential topography for understanding behavior of the shallow fault zone in large surface-rupturing earthquakes.
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of five new international datasets covering areas on both sides of the Pacific. Two of the datasets cover portions of the Wellington and Hope Faults in New Zealand, and were collected by NZ Aerial Mapping with funding from GNS Science (NZ), University Joseph Fourier (France), and Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France). A third, collected near the Burdekin River, Australia by Airborne Research Australia, offers point densities much greater than typical airborne lidar due to atypical overlapping flight grids.
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of a reprocessed version of the “B4” lidar dataset covering the southern San Andreas and San Jacinto faults in California, USA, that enables differentiation between bare ground surfaces and the objects and vegetation above the surface. Since they were originally released in 2005 these data have provided a fundamental resource for the study of active faulting in southern California.
