OpenTopography Part of $4.4 Million Award To Develop a Geographical Information Science Framework
Nov 12, 2010
UCSD Press Release issued November 10th, 2010:
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Standard Digital Elevation Model (DEM) System Outage Planned, Fri, Nov. 12th
Nov 11, 2010
OpenTopography will be performing maintenance on servers associated with our standard DEM download system on Friday, November 12th. During this time, DEM downloads will be unavailable. Please check the "LiDAR System Status" box in the left hand menu under the "Data" tab for updated information related to the outage.
OpenTopography & the UCSD Computational Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU)
Oct 26, 2010
The San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, has announced a new and unique volunteer internship program for undergraduate students entitled Computational Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU).
Granite Dells, Arizona Dataset Now Available
Oct 26, 2010
Today, OpenTopography released a relatively small 47 km2 (~357 million points) LiDAR dataset covering the Granite Dells, near Prescott, Arizona.
OpenTopography at 2010 GSA Annual Meeting
Oct 21, 2010
The 2010 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting will be held October 31st to November 3rd in Denver, CO. This year, there are a number of sessions related to LiDAR topography data, and OpenTopography team members will be making several presentations:
Query by classification bug corrected
Sep 29, 2010
Today we corrected a significant bug in the OpenTopography point cloud access and processing system that was introduced at the OT 2.2 release two weeks ago. The bug, which we missed in beta testing, also went unreported by users over the past two weeks despite significantly impacting data products generated by OpenTopography.
Streamlined DEM downloads and improved processing speed in OpenTopography v 2.2 release
Sep 15, 2010
OpenTopography is pleased to announce another update to our system. This release - OpenTopography v 2.2 - provides a much needed improvement to our standard digital elevation model (DEM) download interface. The new system makes it considerably easier to select and download many files at once, and also fixes issues that were causing stalled downloads in the previous system.
Post-January 2010 Haiti earthquake lidar data now available via OpenTopography
Aug 5, 2010
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of 840 sq kilometers of lidar point cloud data collected between January 21st and January 27th, 2010, in response to the January 12th magnitude 7.0 Haiti earthquake.
LiDAR Database Design Paper to be Presented at SSDBM 2010 Conference
Jun 25, 2010
This week, a paper by OpenTopography team members related to the design of the OpenTopography point cloud database system will be presented by Chaitan Baru at the 2010 International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM) in Heidelberg, Germany.
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