OpenTopography News
June 29 2009: View OpenTopography custom DEMs directly in Google Earth in your browser
We have now made it possible to view custom DEM products produced in the OpenTopography LiDAR processing system directly in Google Earth without leaving the browser.
Read the full news item...June 15 2009: OpenTopography Receives Amazon Web Services Research Grant
OpenTopography is awarded an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Research Grant via the AWS in Education program.
Read the full news item...June 10 2009: Workshop: Teaching Earth Science With High-Resolution Topography
Earth science educators at the community college and undergraduate level are invited to participate in a workshop to be held at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, August 5-7, 2009 on utilizing high-resolution topography and the OpenTopography Portal in the classroom.
Read the full news item...May 07 2009: New GeoEarthScope LiDAR data available: Yellowstone, Tetons, Wasatch
We are pleased to announce the availability of new GeoEarthScope airborne LiDAR data products from the Intermountain Seismic Belt (ISB) project! This release includes high resolution LiDAR topography data collected in tectonically active regions of Utah and Wyoming, including Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks and the Nephi segment (southern strand) of the Wastach fault.
Read the full news item...April 24 2009: NSF press release on recently funded cloud computing research
Press release from NSF highlighting recent funding in support of cloud computing. Projects include funding to OpenTopography team members at SDSC who are investigating the application of cloud computing to the management and processing of LiDAR topography.
Read the full news item...April 15 2009: Full Northern California GeoEarthScope point cloud now online
OpenTopography has released the final round of Northern California GeoEarthScope point cloud data. This release means that all point cloud and tile DEMs for the Northern California data set are now available for download via OpenTopography
Read the full news item...March 04 2009: Eos article highlights N. California GeoEarthScope LIDAR and access via OpenTopography
An article entitled Illuminating Northern California’s Active Faults appeared in the February 17, 2009 issue of Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union. The article highlights northern California GeoEarthScope LIDAR topography as well as access to those data via the OpenTopography Portal.
Read the full news item...February 17 2009: Additional Northern California GeoEarthScope LiDAR point data released
OpenTopography has released another batch of Northern California GeoEarthScope point cloud data. This release means that in addition to the full set of tile DEMs and the Google Earth-viewable hillshades, approximately 85% of the Northern California LiDAR point cloud data are accessible via OpenTopography.
Read the full news item...February 16 2009: SDSC team begins cloud computing research with applications to LiDAR
OpenTopography team members at SDSC have received a new grant from the National Science Foundation to explore new ways for academic researchers to manage extremely large data sets hosted on massive, Internet-based commercial computer clusters, or what have become known as computing “clouds”. This research will use the LiDAR topography data hosted by OpenTopography as a test case and will focus on how cloud computing can aid the management and processing of massive spatial data sets.
Read the full news item...February 06 2009: Update improves performance of NoCal LiDAR browsing in Google Earth
We are pleased to announce an updated version of the Northern California GeoEarthScope LiDAR in Google Earth capability that offers significantly improved browsing performance. This update features the same data as available in previous releases but achieves faster data loading in Google Earth through an updated image processing approach.
Read the full news item...December 03 2008: Introducing the OpenTopography Portal
Yesterday, GEON released an updated and redesigned website (http://www.geongrid.org/). As part of the update to the GEON site, we have moved all of the LiDAR topography oriented features previously hosted in the GEON portal to a new website we are calling the OpenTopography Portal (http://opentopography.org/). The OpenTopography site provides the same core LiDAR data access and processing capabilities that were available through GEON, with streamlined access, new features, better opportunities for user discussion, and most importantly, a dedicated online space for users to find high resolution LiDAR topography and related resources.
Read the full news item...November 25 2008: Garlock LiDAR data is now available: GeoEarthScope SoCal airborne LiDAR project
We are pleased to announce the availability of new GeoEarthScope airborne LiDAR data products from the Southern/Eastern California project! This release includes full coverage of the Garlock fault.
Read the full news item...November 11 2008: LiDAR data update: NoCal Hillshades in Google Earth
We are pleased to announce that GeoEarthScope airborne LiDAR hillshades for the Northern California dataset can now be viewed in Google Earth. This new functionality, developed by GEON and USGS Menlo Park, makes it much easier to access and explore this rich dataset.
Read the full news item...November 07 2008: OpenTopography Beta Release
We are pleased to announce the beta release of the OpenTopography Portal. We hope that OpenTopography will be a more streamlined site for users to get to LiDAR data and will also offer a better environment for users to interact, discuss, and discover resources related to high-resolution topography.
Read the full news item...October 01 2008: GeoEarthScope LiDAR Access and Visualizations demo at GSA EarthScope Booth - October 6, 10-12
GEON is responsible for the distribution of GeoEarthScope LiDAR data. We will be hosting a demo in the EarthScope booth at GSA next week to highlight access to data, Google Earth visualizations, and the OpenTopography Portal:
Monday, October 6, 10 - noon, GeoEarthScope LiDAR Access and Visualizations demo at GSA EarthScope Booth
September 23 2008: Chaitan Baru to Present at 4th Annual Topo-Europe Meeting
The 4th International Topo-Europe Meeting will be held October 5-7, 2008, in Madrid, Spain. The aim of this meeting Is to provide an open forum for science on the feedbacks between deep Earth and surface processes. Chaitan Baru will attend and present a talk on GEON, on October 6th.
Read the full news item...September 23 2008: Northern California GeoEarthScope LiDAR Hillshades in Google Earth
GEON, in collaboration with the USGS, has developed a Google Earth file (KMZ) that provides access to 1 meter resolution bare earth hillshades from the Northern California GeoEarthScope LiDAR topography dataset. By downloading this file and opening it in Google Earth, users are able to browse hillshades with two illumination angles (315 and 45 degrees) for faults in the northern San Andreas fault system. The Google Earth file remotely accesses data stored on GEON servers to allow users to seamlessly browse the full NoCal dataset from within Google Earth.
August 20 2008: GeoEarthScope Northern California Airborne LiDAR Data Available for Download
The entire San Andreas fault system has now been imaged utilizing GeoEarthScope Northern California Airborne LiDAR Data , along with many other important geologic features, and is available for download via the GEON Portal. This entire dataset is now available as 1 km^2 tiles of 0.5 m digital elevation models - both unfiltered (all data)and filtered (bare earth) in ESRI (ArcGIS) binary grid format. Complete metadata are also available for download.
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