OpenTopography News

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March 06 2012 : Twelve new datasets in seven states available. Includes Northern Sierras, Yosemite, White Sands

OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of twelve new lidar point cloud datasets covering a range of landscapes and geologic features in seven different states.  These data were collected for a variety of scientific applications, and feature high-resolution topography for dune fields, active faults, and various watersheds and fluvial systems.

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March 06 2012 : OpenTopography v 3.6 Release

Last week OpenTopography rolled out our latest round of software updates (OT version 3.6), which includes several changes to the OT portal user interface and data access features, as well as many updates behind the scenes to our systems and databases.  A summary of new features and updates in this release.

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February 02 2012 : 10,000 Sq. Kilometers of Coastal Oregon Lidar Data Released

OpenTopography is pleased to announce the availability of more than 10,000 km^2 of lidar point cloud data from coastal Oregon.  These data, totaling more than 100 billion lidar returns, cover the full extent of the Oregon coast, from the California border to the mouth of the Columbia River.

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December 20 2011 : Updates Enhance Data Discovery, Increase Processing Speed, Add LAZ Support and More

It has been a busy fall at OpenTopography, with seemingly non-stop meetings, workshops and conferences to keep us busy. But fortunately the team has also been cranking away at adding significant improvements to the OT system.  Over the past several months we’ve had two major software and system updates that added many features to OT, some of which are visible to users, while others are important updates to our underlying data management and processing systems. 

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December 20 2011 : NCALM and Critical Zone Observatories Data Available

OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of twelve new datasets covering a range of landscapes and geologic features.  These data were collected for a variety of scientific applications, and the release of these data is the product of recently signed memoranda of understanding (MOUs) between OpenTopography and the NSF National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM), and the NSF Critical Zone Observatories (CZOs) respectively

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December 19 2011 : OpenTopography User Feedback Wanted

Dear OpenTopography community, Thank you for sharing our enthusiasm for high resolution topography! We hope that you are finding OpenTopography useful. As you know, the goal of OT is to be a portal to high-resolution topography data and related tools. Over the past two years we have quadrupled the amount of data we host, and are adding new data weekly.

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November 29 2011 : OpenTopography at 2011 AGU Fall Meeting

As is the tradition, OpenTopography will be active at the upcoming American Geophysical Union fall meeting, December 5-9, 2011 in San Francisco. As we’ve done in the past, we’ll have a booth in the exhibit hall and several scientific presentations that highlight the OpenTopography system and related research and development work.

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October 17 2011 : San Diego Urban Region and Andrews / Willamette Forests Oregon Lidar Released

OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of two new lidar point cloud datasets: Andrews Experimental Forest and Willamette National Forest LiDAR (Aug 2008) & 2005 San Diego Urban Region Lidar.

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September 14 2011 : Updated Tahoe Data Products

A revised set of data products for the Lake Tahoe Basin lidar dataset are now available via OpenTopography.  This updated release addresses specific issues related to lake level elevation in the hyro-enforced bare earth surface model. 

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September 09 2011 : OpenTopography Down Due to Regional Power Outage

UPDATE Sept 9, 12 pm: All OpenTopography systems should now be up. The visualization server may be intermittently unavailable due to residual networking issues caused by the Southern California power outage. 

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