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NSF Awards SDSC, Arizona State University $1.7 Million for National OpenTopography LiDAR Facility
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego and Arizona State University have been awarded a $1.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to operate an internet-based national data facility for high-resolution topographic data acquired with LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) technology. The facility will also provide online processing tools and act as a community repository for information, software and training materials.
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Posted: December 11, 2009
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EarthScope Yakima Standard DEM Data Now Available
As promised in last week’s release of new southern California and Washington EarthScope LiDAR data, the standard digital elevation models for the Yakima fold and thrust belt in central Washington are now available via the OpenTopography Standard DEM page.
Posted: January 21 2010
EarthScope LiDAR and OpenTopography featured as image of the week by iSGTW
Images of EarthScope LiDAR data accessed via the OpenTopography portal are being featured under the title “Seeing with lasers” as Image of the week by International Science Grid This Week (iSGTW). iSGTW is an international, weekly, on-line newsletter that emphasizes distributed computing, cloud computing and supercomputing for scientific applications.
Posted: January 20 2010
New EarthScope LiDAR data products from California and Washington
OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of new EarthScope LiDAR topography data from southern California and Washington state. In southern California, this release includes data for faults in the Mojave (Lenwood, Helendale, Calico, Blackwater), eastern California (Panamint, Tin Mtn, Mud Hills, Hunter Mtn, Owens) and San Cayetano. In Washington, data are now available for the Yakima fold and thrust belt.
Posted: January 12 2010
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A quick look at NGA LiDAR from Haiti
As I pointed out in my last post, there has been a concerted effort by a number of groups to acquire LiDAR data over Haiti in the wake of the January 12th earthquake. In addition to the Rochester Institute of Technology and Navy groups operating in Haiti, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is also collecting data in Haiti. Some NGA LiDAR data products are available via the NGA Haiti Earthquake Crisis Relief site. Since this is the first post-earthquake data I've seen available to the public, I pulled a few of these files and have been looking at themPosted: January 27 2010
Haiti LiDAR
Recent reports indicate that there is LiDAR data being collected by a number of groups over Haiti in the wake of the 12 January magnitude 7.0 earthquake. These data will potentially be powerful for earthquake relief workers and the scientific community, and should be an important geospatial resource in the recovery and rebuilding of Haiti.Posted: January 22 2010
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