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Sonoma County California Topography and Vegetation Data now Available

Oct 22, 2014

OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of lidar point cloud and raster data covering Sonoma County, CA. These data are a result of a five year effort to map Sonoma County's topography and physical and biotic features, and diverse plant communities and habitats (at a 1:5,000 or higher mapping). Several organizations including the University of Maryland, NASA, and the Sonoma Veg Map program funded the collection and hosting of data on OpenTopography.

Point cloud data from California and New Mexico now available

Oct 1, 2014

OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of two point cloud datasets covering areas of northern New Mexico and the Mojave desert in California. Both datasets were collected by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) in 2012. The data from New Mexico were collected under a National Science Foundation (NSF) award.

USGS Powell Center Working Group on Exploiting High-Resolution Topography

Sep 16, 2014

OpenTopography team members Ramon Arrowsmith and Christopher Crosby are part of a working group at the USGS Powell Center in Fort Collins, CO focused on Exploiting high-resolution topography for advancing the understanding of mass and energy transfer across landscapes: O

New Point Cloud data from Arizona, California, Mississippi, Oregon, and Utah

Aug 18, 2014

OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of seven new lidar datasets collected by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) in areas of Arizona, California, Mississippi, Oregon, and Utah. NCALM is a NSF-funded center that supports the use of airborne laser mapping technology (a.k.a.

Interns in SDSC Research Experience for High School Students work on OpenTopography

Aug 5, 2014

This summer, OpenTopography is hosting interns from local San Diego area high schools as part of the San Diego Supercomputer Center's Research Experience for High School Students (REHS) program.

New Pub: Leveraging HPC Resources to Address Computational Challenges with High-Res Topography

Jul 31, 2014

A new publication by OpenTopography team members and collaborators from the CyberGIS project and Utah State University was published this month in the proceedings of the XSEDE conference.

OpenTopography Staffer Receives NSF Fellowship to Study Earthquakes in Japan

Apr 29, 2014

Congratulations to Emily Kleber, a Geospatial Data Specialist for OpenTopography, on receiving a National Science Foundation (NSF) East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Fellowship to study earthquakes in Japan this summer.

SRTM Version 3.0 Global (90m) and United States (30m) Elevation Data Now Available

Apr 8, 2014

The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) obtained 90 meter (3 arc-second) resolution data on a near-global scale (between 56 degrees South and 60 degrees North latitude) and 30 meter (1 arc-second) resolution over United States, providing a valuable global topographic dataset. The SRTM data were collected during an 11-day mission in February of 2000 from a radar system onboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor. The SRTM project was led by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and NASA.

OpenTopography Receives Windows Azure for Research Award

Apr 3, 2014

OpenTopography has received a Windows Azure for Research Award from Microsoft Research. The Windows Azure for Research program "facilitates and accelerates scholarly and scientific research by enabling researchers to use the power of Windows Azure to perform big data computations in the cloud".

Point Cloud Data from Hawaii now Available

Jan 27, 2014

OpenTopography recently released five new point cloud datasets collected over parts of the Big Island and Kauai in Hawaii. These datasets were collected in 2013 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 and the Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley.

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