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McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica lidar now available

Aug 8, 2017

OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of lidar point cloud and DEM data covering 2,775.65 km² of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Lidar was collected in the austral summer of 2014-2015 with the objective of studying geomorphic changes over the past decade. The study area includes the McMurdo Dry Valleys (Taylor, Pearse, Wright, Victoria, Mckelvey, Barwick, and Valham valleys, and Bull Pass) and nearby McMurdo Station and Scott Base.

Updated: Six new pre-Kaikoura, New Zealand earthquake lidar datasets available

Mar 20, 2017

OpenTopography Team to Develop Cyberinfrastructure for NASA’s ICESat-2 Data

Mar 7, 2017

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, in collaboration with Boulder, CO-based UNAVCO and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) have been awarded a NASA ACCESS grant to develop a cyberinfrastructure platform for discovery, access, and visualization of data from NASA’s ICESat and upcoming ICESat

Three new global topographic datasets available (SRTM Ellipsoidal, ALOS World 3D, GMRT)

Feb 1, 2017

OpenTopography is proud to announce the availability of three new global topographic datasets:

2012 New Zealand lidar from area impacted by M7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake available

Dec 9, 2016

Continuing our collaboration with Land Information New Zealand (LINZ), OpenTopography is pleased to announce the availability of lidar point cloud data from the coast near Kaikoura, Northern Canterbury, New Zealand.

OpenTopography at the 2016 American Geophysical Union Meeting

Dec 9, 2016

Come connect with OpenTopography at the 2016 American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco! OpenTopography will be in booth #513 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.

New datasets available in Utah, California, Florida and more

Nov 2, 2016

OpenTopography is happy to announce the release of over a dozen new datasets. Eight of these datasets were collected by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) as part of their seed grant program. NCALM is an NSF-funded center that supports the use of airborne laser mapping technology (a.k.a.

Two new satellite-derived point clouds available

Sep 9, 2016

OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of two new photogrammetric datasets derived from the Pleiades 1A and 1B satellites. These datasets are unique among those provided through OpenTopography, as the point clouds were created using stereo imagery taken from space and not using lidar technology.

New lidar datasets available in New Zealand

Aug 26, 2016

OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of two new datasets in New Zealand.

OpenTopography updates: enhanced site search, increased limits, USIEI

Aug 11, 2016

OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of a number of updates and improvements to the OpenTopography system. This release adds several new features to enhance data discovery, processing, and site usability.

Release Notes:

In addition to bug fixes and minor updates, this release includes the following features:

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