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June 12 2013 : OpenTopography Completes Ingestion of all NCALM Lidar Data Collected Between 2003 & 2012

    OpenTopography is pleased to announce that we’ve completed our work to ingest and provide open access to all National Science Foundation funded lidar datasets collected by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) between 2003 - 2012. In total, there are now 116 NCALM point cloud lidar datasets available via OpenTopography - greater than 126 billion lidar points over more than 22,000 square kilometers of North America. 

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May 29 2013 : New Point Cloud Data from California, Colorado, Washington and Wyoming

    OpenTopography recently released five new point cloud datasets collected over areas of the Owens Valley (CA), the Colorado Rockies, Mt. Rainier National Park (WA) and Yellowstone National Park (WY).

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May 22 2013 : LiDAR and Raster Datasets Covering 1,500 sq. km. of the CA Central Coast Now Available

    OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of point cloud and raster data supporting ongoing seismic hazard research surrounding the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, Central Coast California. The datasets were provided by Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) and are comprised of three separate surveys: Diablo Canyon (2010), Los Osos (2011), and San Simeon (2013).

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May 14 2013 : California, Maine, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Utah Point Data Available

    Eight datasets from six states were recently released by OpenTopography covering areas of California, Maine, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Utah. These data include four Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) datasets, three National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) datasets and one dataset from the Utah Geological Survey. 

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April 07 2013 : OpenTopography at 2013 European Geosciences Union Meeting

    OpenTopography will be at the 2013 European Geosciences Union (EGU) Meeting this week in Vienna, Austria and presenting a talk on OT in the “3D Spatial Data, Analysis, Visualization and Infrastructures in Geosciences - From 3D Point Clouds to Information” session Friday morning.

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April 01 2013 : 10 New Point Cloud Datasets from Brazil, Alaska, California, Montana, North Carolina & Oregon

    OpenTopography has released ten datasets covering a small area in Brazil as well as the US states of Alaska, California, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon. These data cover a diverse range of topographic environments and were collected to study active tectonics, volcanic areas, coastal geomorphology and hydrology.

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March 04 2013 : OpenTopography Partner on New Grant to Develop Software Tools to Analyze LiDAR Data

    OpenTopography is a partner on a recently awarded National Science Foundation grant to develop software tools to make it easier for scientists to analyze lidar point cloud data. The collaborative research (NSF awards 1226145 & 1226127) is led by Nancy Glenn (Idaho State University’s Department of Geosciences Boise Center Aerospace Laboratory), Andrew Hudak (U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station), and Joe Wheaton (Utah State University). 

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February 28 2013 : Vermont, Mojave Desert, CA Coast Range, and New Hampshire Point Data Available

    Four datasets covering areas of Northern Vermont, Mojave Desert, Northern California Coast Range, and Southern New Hampshire are now available through OpenTopography.

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February 12 2013 : New Publication: Lidar and Google Earth: Simplifying access to high-resolution topography data

    A new Geological Society of America Special Paper volume entitled, Google Earth and Virtual Visualizations in Geoscience Education and Research includes a paper on OpenTopography’s work to make lidar-derived imagery viewable in Google Earth: Lidar and Google Earth: Simplifying Access to High-Resolution Topography Data.

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January 29 2013 : Thirteen Datasets from Eight States Available

    OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release thirteen datasets collected by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) over areas of Arizona, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.

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