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Aug 26, 2016
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of two new datasets in New Zealand.
Marlborough Fault System, South Island, New Zealand
The Marlborough Fault System is a set of major faults on New Zealand's South Island. The fault system accommodates a stepover in the boundary between the Pacific and Australian tectonic plates. The lidar data were collected by the U.S. National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) in collaboration with New Zealand Aerial Mapping for PI James F. Dolan, University of Southern California. High resolution ( ≥ 12 shots/m2) data were collected over parts of... more
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:
Enhanced site search
The new all-in-one search box allows the user to search data, tools, and site content. The data and site searches were previously in separate locations. You can now search metadata for over 200 datasets and 50 tools, in addition to OpenTopography's... more
Jul 26, 2016
We're pleased to announce that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has renewed funding for OpenTopography, a science gateway that provides online access to Earth science oriented high-resolution topography data and processing tools.
The award, “Collaborative Research: OpenTopography -- A Cyberinfrastructure Facility for Topographic Data, Services, and Knowledge” from the NSF’s Division of Earth Sciences, provides $1.365 million during the next two and-a-half years for the third phase of the project (OT3) managed by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego; Arizona State... more
Jul 12, 2016
Over the past several months OpenTopography has released eight new datasets. Six 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. lidar) in the scientific community and is jointly operated by the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston and the Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley. The release of these data via... more
Jun 8, 2016
OpenTopography, in collaboration with the Boise State University Boise Center Aerospace Lab (BCAL) and NEON, will be teaching a short course this fall on Topographic, Geomorphic, and Vegetation Analysis with Lidar. This workshop is part of a series of NSF/NEON supported training on the use of datasets from the NEON Airborne Observing Platform to enable new discoveries in the biophysical research community. Applications are also being accepted for a related short course focused on NEON-hyperspectral data.
Description:
This 3-day course taught by OpenTopography and NEON lidar experts will... more
Mar 22, 2016
We are pleased to announce a second 2016 running of our short course on high resolution topography. This course follows high demand (90+ applicants) for our January course, and so we will be offering the course again thanks to support from UNAVCO, NCALM, and EarthScope.
Short Course: Imaging and Analyzing Active Faults with High Resolution Topography
April 18-19, 2016 at UNAVCO in Boulder Colorado.
Details and application: http://www.opentopography.org/workshops/boulder-workshop-april-2016
Participant support in the form of 2 nights local shared lodging, food during the short course, and up... more
Dec 11, 2015
We are happy to announce a short course on Imaging and Analyzing Southern California's Active Faults with High Resolution Topography.
High resolution topographic data has become an important tool for earthquake scientists to make detailed observations and model surface evolution. Within the last decade, efforts have been made to collect high resolution topographic data for active faults. These datasets are freely available online through OpenTopography, a NSF funded facility. The active faulting community has taken great interest in these exciting datasets, using them to generate important... more
Dec 9, 2015
Come connect with OpenTopography at the 2015 American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco! OpenTopography will be in booth #211 on "NSF Street" in the exhibit hall. The booth is shared with the National Center for 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 discuss lidar, high resolution topography, or cyberinfrastructure.
Exhibit hall hours are:
Monday, 14 December, 6:00 P.M.-8:00 P.M. (Ice Breaker Reception)
Tuesday-Thursday, 15-17 December, 9:30 A.M.–5:00 P.M.
Friday, 18... more
Oct 8, 2015
OpenTopography is happy to announce the release of seven new raster datasets. These datasets are derived from previously released point cloud data, and allow users to quickly and easily access high resolution digital elevation models. Six of these datasets were collected by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM). NCALM is a NSF-funded center that supports the use of airborne laser mapping technology (a.k.a. lidar) in the scientific community and is jointly operated by the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston... more
Jul 29, 2015
08/31/15 UPDATE: Due to concerns from the Principle Investigator of this project, NCALM has asked OpenTopography to take this dataset down. In accordance with this request, we’ve made the Mayapan dataset private until further notice.
We are pleased to announce the release of an international lidar dataset from Mayapan, Mexico. These data were collected in 2012 as part of an archaeological project studying this Pre-Columbian Maya site on the Yucatan Peninsula. The data were collected by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM). NCALM is a NSF-funded center that supports the use... more
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