Last week OpenTopography rolled out our latest round of software updates (OT version 3.6), which includes several changes to the OT portal user interface and data access features, as well as many updates behind the scenes to our systems and databases. A summary of new features and updates in this release:
User Interface and Data Access:
It has been a busy fall at OpenTopography, with seemingly non-stop meetings, workshops and conferences to keep us busy. But fortunately the team has also been cranking away at adding significant improvements to the OT system. Over the past several months we've had two major software and system updates that added many features to OT, some of which are visible to users, while others are important updates to our underlying data management and processing systems.
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of twelve new datasets covering a range of landscapes and geologic features.
Dear OpenTopography community,
As is the tradition, OpenTopography will be active at the upcoming American Geophysical Union fall meeting, December 5-9, 2011 in San Francisco. As we've done in the past, we'll have a booth in the exhibit hall and several scientific presentations that highlight the OpenTopography system and related research and development work.
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of two new lidar point cloud datasets. Both datasets can be accessed via the OpenTopography "Find Data" interface.
Andrews Experimental Forest and Willamette National Forest LiDAR (Aug 2008):
A revised set of data products for the Lake Tahoe Basin lidar dataset are now available via OpenTopography. This updated release addresses specific issues related to lake level elevation in the hyro-enforced bare earth surface model. Specifically, the data vendor, Watershed Sciences, reprocessed the hydro-enforced surface so that "all lakes were lowered to the lowest identified shoreline elevation to ensure a constant elevation equal to the shoreline elevation.
UPDATE Sept 9, 12 pm: All OpenTopography systems should now be up. The visualization server may be intermittently unavailable due to residual networking issues caused by the Southern California power outage.
OpenTopography will be intermittently unavailable starting at 12 pm Pacific time on Thursday, September 8th, 2011. We will be physically relocating OpenTopography servers to a new rack location in the San Diego Supercomputer Center machine room. We anticipate certain components of OpenTopography to be unavailable during this migration and expect the outage to last several hours on Thursday afternoon.
