OpenTopography

Citing OpenTopography and Hosted Data

NSF policy stipulates grantee responsibility for assuring acknowledgment of material based on or developed with NSF support in any publication, including web pages. In addition, NSF requires oral acknowledgment during all news media interviews. In some cases, the grants or funding sources of OpenTopography community members or other data providers must also be cited or the disclaimer is also required - please see below for information on how to acknowledge data hosted by OpenTopography. Your acknowledgment of OpenTopography support also provides a measure of OpenTopography’s success and will help to ensure continued funding.

OpenTopography Acknowledgment:

This material is based on [data, processing] services provided by the OpenTopography Facility with support from the National Science Foundation under NSF Award Numbers 0930731 & 0930643

Data Set Acknowledgment:

OpenTopography hosts data acquired with funding from a variety of sources.  Please use the appropriate language or instructions below to acknowledge these data in presentations, publications, and other locations where the data are presented.

B4 Data:
If you use the B4 data in your research or projects please publish your imagery using the B4 logo and refer to the B4 website, http://www.earthsciences.osu.edu/b4, in your acknowledgments section.

EarthScope Data:
This material is based on services provided by the Plate Boundary Observatory operated by UNAVCO for EarthScope (http://www.earthscope.org) and supported by the National Science Foundation (No. EAR-0350028 and EAR-0732947).

Napa Watershed, CA:
LiDAR data acquired by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM).

Northern San Andreas Fault (NSAF) and West Rainier Seismic Zone Data:
These data were acquired by NASA, in collaboration with the United States Geologic Survey and the Puget Sound Lidar Consortium, with funding provided by NASA’s Earth Surface and Interior Focus Area. The data was collected and processed by Terrapoint. The data are in the public domain with no restrictions on their use.

Fault systems in the Eastern California Shear Zone, CA (ECSZ) Data:
LiDAR data acquired by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping on behalf of Dr. Mike Oskin (UC Davis) and Dr. Lesley Perg (University of Minnesota) as part of their National Science Foundation funded-project (No. EAR-0337263): Testing tectonic geodesy from fault slip rates across the eastern California shear zone.

World Bank - ImageCat Inc. - RIT Haiti Earthquake LiDAR
LiDAR data were acquired by Rochester Institute of Technology and Kucera International, under sub-contract to ImageCat Inc. and funded by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) hosted at The World Bank