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Relative elevation model of the White River, Indiana -
Profile through Auckland, NZ lidar point cloud data. Sky Tower at center left. -
1 meter hillshade image of Yaquina Head, Oregon lidar -
D8 flow direction map from 30m SRTM data, Mt. Hood, Oregon -
3D visualization of lidar point cloud data of the Flatirons, Boulder, Colorado -
Black Rock Desert Wilderness, Nevada
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Sep 15, 2026
New lidar coverage was added this month in California, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, including a NOAA bathymetry dataset spanning the Appalachian rivers of West Virginia and Pennsylvania that captures depth data along these major waterways. Two large...
Aug 17, 2026
This month's release brings new coverage across Europe, Central America, and the US. High-resolution, country-wide digital elevation models covering Norway, Finland, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein were added, offering national bare-earth and surface...
Jul 13, 2026
New datasets were added in June 2026 spanning the US mainland, Alaska, and two continental to global-scale digital terrain models (DTMs). ANADEM is a machine learning-derived DTM covering all of South America, while GEDTM is a near-global-scale DTM...
Latest Blog Posts
Aug 17, 2026
OpenTopography is excited to announce the launch of a new Point Elevation API - a fast, lightweight service that returns the elevation for any location on Earth from our global and regional dataset collection with a single web request.
What Is the Point Elevation API?
OpenTopography has long offered an API...
Jan 23, 2026
Primary support for OpenTopography comes from the Division of Earth Sciences at the U.S. National Science Foundation, and thus, our principal emphasis is on facilitating access to topographic data oriented towards Earth science research and education. In the context of academic research, publications are a crucial...