OpenTopography

Partners

The OpenTopography Facility is built on collaborations and partnerships with a number of groups.  If you have data or other resources you’d like to make available via the OpenTopography Portal, please

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 the OpenTopography Portal.  For more information see the NLAS project page.

EarthScope LiDAR Data:

OpenTopography is the primary distribution pathway for LiDAR data acquired by the GeoEarthScope project.  Once complete, LiDAR data for active faults throughout the western United States will be available through OpenTopography.  For all EarthScope LiDAR data sets, point cloud data, standard DEMs, and Google Earth hillshade visualizations will be available.

SIO Visualization Center:

OpenTopography is currently collaborating with the Scripts Institute of Oceanography Visualization 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

INTERFACE (INTERdisciplinary alliance for digital Field data ACquisition and Exploration) is funded by NSF and managed by UNAVCO to help geoscientists in obtaining high resolution and precision, 3D surface data. INTERFACE provides a one-stop shop for users at any experience level to obtain instrumentation, software, and instruction in the collection of earth surface data by Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS) Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR).  We will be working expand OpenTopography’s LiDAR distribution and processing capability to incorporate INTERFACE TLS topographic data and new processing tools.