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Short Courses

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

US-Egypt Workshop 2012
January 15 - 18, 2012 @ National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS), Cairo, Egypt
Sponsored by Hamilton College & Egypt National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS)

Imaging and Analyzing Southern California’s Active Faults with High-Resolution Lidar Topography
Held at University California, Davis October 24-25, 2011
Sponsored by SCEC, UC Davis KeckCAVES and OpenTopography.

New Tools in Process-Based Analysis of Lidar Topographic Data
Held at University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), Boulder, Colorado, USA, June 1-2, 2010
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics and Instrumentation and Facilities programs and the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) at the University of Houston.

Using EarthScope and B4 LiDAR data to analyze Southern California’s active faults
Held at San Diego Supercomputer Center, December 3-4, 2009.
Sponsored by SCEC, OpenTopography, UNAVCO, and SDSC.

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

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