Short Courses

Lectures, tutorials, exercises, and sample data from past short courses that OpenTopography team members have led or participated in.

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Using EarthScope and B4 LiDAR data to analyze Southern California’s active faults - Sponsored by SCEC, OpenTopography, UNAVCO, and SDSC.

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2009 Geological Society of America Short Course:
Intro to the acquisition, visualization, and interpretation of airborne LiDAR-derived digital elevation models

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2008 UNAVCO Short Course:
Processing and Analysis of GeoEarthscope and Other Community LiDAR Topography Datasets

A selection of relevant materials below - see the UNAVCO hosted course site for lecture slides, handouts, tutorials and sample data:

• GeoEarthScope DEM Data and ArcGIS
• OpenTopography Outputs (custom DEMs) and ArcMap
• Global Mapper and Basic Visualization of OpenTopography Products
• Introduction to LAStools (converting LAS format LIDAR point cloud data to ascii)
• Introduction to GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library) (raster file format conversion and projection)

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2007 Geological Society of America Short Course:
Processing and Analysis of GeoEarthscope and Other Community LiDAR Topography Datasets