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Dec 6, 2024
OpenTopography is excited to introduce OpenTopography Elevate, a new program designed to provide U.S.-based researchers and educators with personalized, expert assistance in working with digital elevation model and point cloud topography data...
Dec 6, 2024
OpenTopography invites you to join us for a series of weekly, hour-long webinars in March 2025. During the webinars, we will teach the basics of high resolution topography, including lidar and structure from motion photogrammetry, and demonstrate...
Jan 13, 2025
The ongoing Los Angeles wildfires, including the Palisades, Eaton and Hurst fires, are scorching parts of the city and have destroyed thousands of homes and other buildings. On January 7, California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of...

Latest Blog Posts

Sep 13, 2024
by Emily Zawacki OpenTopography periodically highlights new research results that demonstrate the use and reuse of data from OpenTopography. These three publications highlight topographic research applications in fault geomorphology, botany, and ecology and wildlife management. Fault mapping with drone lidar Lidar...
Apr 22, 2024
by Emily Zawacki OpenTopography periodically highlights new research results that demonstrate the use and reuse of data from OpenTopography. These three publications highlight topographic research applications in earthquake hazards, wildlife and conservation, and geomorphology. Using lidar to assess building damage...