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Posts from September 2009

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Request for NCALM Seed Proposals from Graduate Students

Posted on Wed, September 30, 2009 by ccrosby in Data • News

NCALM‘s annual announcement for their seed proposals went out yesterday via various email listservs.  This an an excellent opportunity for graduate students to obtain free LiDAR data for an area related to their research.

The National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) invites graduate students who are interested in research grade airborne laser swath mapping (ALSM or lidar) data to make use of the center’s facilities through the Seed projects program. This year the program will support 10 seed projects covering an area no more than 40 sq. km. each. These projects are intended to provide data to graduate students early in their research program, so that availability of such data may seed further research and support, building upon discoveries made possible by ALSM technology.

The proposals can be submitted electronically by visiting the center’s website http://www.ncalm.org. The submission deadline is November 16, 2009.

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An Update on Southern California LiDAR Coverage of Active Faults

Posted on Tue, September 15, 2009 by ccrosby in Data • OpenTopography Updates

OpenTopography has released yet another round of GeoEarthScope LiDAR data for active faults in southern California.  The most recent release includes the Elsinore fault, the Burro Flats segment of San Andreas fault, and the Crater Mountain portion of the Owens Valley, adding to the existing SoCal fault coverage that includes the Garlock, the San Andreas and San Jacinto and a number of faults in the Eastern California Shear Zone in the Mojave.  At the Southern California Earthquake Center Annual Meeting in Palm Springs this week, I presented a poster that provides an update on the status of LiDAR coverage for active faults in southern California available via OpenTopography.  The image below comes from my poster and nicely summarizes the southern California LiDAR data currently available via OpenTopography as well as what will be available in the near future.

As you can see, if the area is shown in yellow, those data were collected by GeoEarthScope and are currently available via OpenTopography.  Likewise, areas outlined in orange are also available via OpenTopography, but these data were collected by campaigns other than GeoEarthScope (e.g. the B4 and the ECSZ projects). Finally, areas shown in green are GeoEarthScope data that have not been delivered to OpenTopography for distribution to the community but that we expect to arrive in the next few months.  As always, you can use the data overview page in OpenTopography to see what data is available in the system.

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