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New NCALM datasets capturing post-fire landscapes in California, and Hurricane Harvey impacts in Texas

Aug 31, 2020

OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of four new NCALM Seed datasets covering areas of California, and one hurricane rapid response project in Texas. These datasets were collected by NCALM, an NSF-funded center that supports the use of airborne laser mapping technology (a.k.a. lidar) in the scientific community and is jointly operated by the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston and the Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley.

OpenTopography bulk downloads migrating to SDSC’s Universal Scale Storage

Aug 26, 2020

We have recently migrated hosting of OpenTopography’s bulk data from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) data storage cloud (OpenStack Object Storage) to their Universal Scale Storage (USS) service offering. USS is a managed service of Qumulo’s hybrid cloud file storage provided by SDSC that offers better performance and is highly scalable.

OpenTopography Collaboration Awarded New 4-Year Grant

Aug 24, 2020

We're happy to announce that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has renewed funding for OpenTopography, a science gateway that provides online access to Earth science oriented high-resolution topography data and processing tools to a broad user community advancing research and education in areas ranging from earthquake geology to ecology and hydrology.

Over 100 new 3DEP datasets available through OpenTopography

Aug 12, 2020

New lidar datasets throughout the US have been added to the publicly accessible, USGS 3DEP Amazon Web Services (AWS) bucket, and are now available through OpenTopography. This latest release expands the coverage by an additional 108 datasets, or 3.7 trillion new lidar points.

Hamilton, Waikato and Motueka River Valley, Tasman, New Zealand datasets released

Aug 3, 2020

OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of two new lidar datasets covering over 800 km² in New Zealand. Lidar was captured in January 2020 around the region of Hamilton City on the North Island. Another dataset was collected over the South Island between November 2018 and February 2019, and covers the Motueka River Valley, Betty's Beach and Eve's Valley.

Two new Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) datasets released

Jul 21, 2020

OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of two new lidar datasets covering over 1200 km² in New Zealand. Lidar was captured in January 2020 around the region of Balclutha, Otago on the South Island. Another dataset was collected between December 2018 and April 2019, and covers portions of the Bay of Plenty on the North Island.

New Release: Digital Surface Models of Ridgecrest, CA: Pre and Post July 2019 Earthquakes

Jul 21, 2020

OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of two digital surface models (DSMs) that are mosaics of two meter resolution stereogrammetric DSMs constructed using DigitalGlobe base imagery (©DigitalGlobe 2019) acquired before and after the July 2019 Ridgecrest, California earthquake sequence. These datasets cover over 8,000 km ² of the region surrounding the recent earthquakes, and provide a unique opportunity for research of this event. The datasets were produced by William Barnhart, University of Iowa.

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Three new NCALM datasets released from California, and Utah now available

Jul 13, 2020

OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of three new NCALM SEED datasets covering areas of California, and Mexico. These datasets were collected by NCALM, an NSF-funded center that supports the use of airborne laser mapping technology (a.k.a. lidar) in the scientific community and is jointly operated by the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston and the Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley. OpenTopography is the primary distributor of NCALM data.

New Structure from Motion Dataset Near Bishop, CA.

Jul 9, 2020

Nominations open for student representative to OpenTopography Advisory Committee

Jun 17, 2020

OpenTopography is guided by an advisory committee which represents OpenTopography users and partners and provides valuable input on decisions related to OpenTopography priorities for data ingestion, interoperability relationships, algorithm and tool deployment, collaborations, and education and community engagement. We seek a graduate student (M.S. or Ph.D.) to join the advisory committee and represent the interests of emerging scientists who interact with OpenTopography.

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