OpenTopography

Partners

The OpenTopography Facility is built on strong collaborations with a variety of groups.  Partnerships involve both data hosting as well as technology research and development.  If you are interested in collaborating with OpenTopography on data hosting or other activities, please .

Data Hosting:

Memoranda of Understanding:

• NSF National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) - Through this MOU, OpenTopography will be the sole distribution pathway for all NCALM-collected lidar data.  Work is ongoing to migrate the full NCALM data catalog (point cloud and raster topographic data products) into OpenTopography.  OpenTopography will also provide online data archive for raw NCALM data products via the San Diego Supercomputer Center Cloud.
• NSF Critical Zone Observatories (CZOs) - OpenTopography and the CZOs have an MOU in place regarding hosting and distribution of CZO lidar data products.
• Tahoe Regional Planning Agency - MOU with TRPA for OpenTopography hosting of the Lake Tahoe Basin Lidar dataset.
• Teton Conservation District - MOU in place with TRPA for OpenTopography hosting of the Teton Conservation District, Wyoming lidar datatset
• Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) - OpenTopography and DOGAMI have an MOU in place for OpenTopography to host all point cloud data collected by the Oregon Lidar Consortium (managed by DOGAMI).  This is an ongoing activity and we are progressively ingesting and releasing these data.  Available point cloud data can be found on our DOGAMI Lidar Program page.

• EarthScope - Funded through a subcontract, OpenTopography was the distribution pathway for LiDAR data acquired by the EarthScope lidar project.  The dataset includes LiDAR for active faults throughout the western United States.  Hosting of these data is sustained under OpenTopography’s funding from NSF.
• Scripts Institute of Oceanography Visualization Center - OpenTopography collaborated with the SIO Viz Center to incorporate visualizations of B4 and EarthScope LiDAR topography into our portal so that they can be accessed along with the other data products.
• INTERFACE (INTERdisciplinary alliance for digital Field data ACquisition and Exploration) - Funded by NSF and managed by UNAVCO to help geoscientists in obtaining high resolution Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS) data.  We are working with INTERFACE and UNAVCO to explore TLS data hosting and processing in OpenTopography.
• RIT Information Products Laboratory for Emergency Response (IPLER) - OpenTopography is hosting the lidar data collected following the January 12, 2010 Haiti earthquake in a partnership with the RIT IPLER group who oversaw the data collection.

Cyberinfrastructure R&D:

• NASA LiDAR Access System (NLAS) Project - The NLAS project is a collaboration between UNAVCO, the National Snow and Ice Data Center, OpenTopography, and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to develop a NASA LiDAR Access System (NLAS) to serve laser altimetry data from the NASA space-based ICESat system and the airborne LVIS platform through OpenTopography.
• CyberGIS: Software Integration for Sustained Geospatial Innovation - The CyberGIS project is funded by the NSF’s Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation program with the goal of establishing a fundamentally new software framework encompassing a seamless integration of cyberinfrastructure, geographical information science (GIS), and spatial analysis and modeling capabilities.  OpenTopography is one of several teams working on the project.