Information and discussion related to high-resolution lidar topography for the Earth sciences
Here is a call for abstracts for a special session at the 2009 Seismological Society of America meeting in Monterey, CA devoted to applying LiDAR data to the study of active faults. Full announcement courtesy of Carol Prentice (USGS):
Today, Ionut Iordache announced the release of NCALM's new Google Earth-based LiDAR Data Distribution Center. This new system is much improved over NCALM's former means of distributing their public datasets and is likely to be very popular and successful.
Today at 10 am The Great Southern California ShakeOut staged an Mw=7.8 earthquake on the southern San Andreas Fault to raise public awareness of earthquake hazards and to allow public responders and the scientific community to practice their response to such an event.
The National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping has issued their annual call for Seed Proposals from graduate students.
Ramon Arrowsmith points out that CGIAR-CSI has released a new version (v.4) of their 90m SRTM Digital Elevation Data.
The SRTM data now available from this site has been upgraded to version 4. This latest version represents a significant improvement from previous versions, using new interpolation algorithms and better auxiliary dems. We are confident this is now the highest quality SRTM dataset available.
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