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New lidar dataset over the Guadalupe Mountains, NM/TX

Apr 26, 2019

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.

Canterbury, New Zealand 2016 lidar point cloud datasets available

Apr 10, 2019

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).

New lidar dataset covering Chaco Canyon, New Mexico

Apr 9, 2019

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.

New lidar dataset covering San Andreas Fault near Parkfield, CA

Mar 21, 2019

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.

Announcing On-Demand Vertical Differencing in OpenTopography

Mar 14, 2019

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.

Queenstown, Otago, and Mackenzie, Canterbury, New Zealand lidar point cloud datasets available

Feb 27, 2019

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.

Impact of OpenTopography highlighted in StateScoop GIS Addressed podcast

Feb 6, 2019

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.

Reduced OpenTopography Support During Holiday Break

Dec 20, 2018

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.

OpenTopography at the 2018 American Geophysical Union Meeting

Dec 6, 2018

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.

Four New Zealand datasets now available for Blenheim, Golden Bay, Abel Tasman, and Richmond and Motueka

Sep 18, 2018

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.

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