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El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake (Mexico) and Several Other LiDAR Datasets Released

Dec 20, 2010

OpenTopography is happy to announce the release of five new LiDAR point cloud datasets. These data cover a range of spatial scales, geographic areas, and acquisition technologies. This release includes two small footprint airborne LiDAR datasets, including the highly anticipated El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake (4 April 2010) Rupture LiDAR Scan covering 372 km² just south of the US/Mexican border in northern Baja, Mexico.

New OpenTopography Tool Registry - Contribute or Discover Software

Dec 13, 2010

OpenTopography is pleased to announce the release of our new Tool Registry. The OpenTopography Tool Registry provides a community populated clearinghouse of software, utilities, and tools oriented towards high-resolution topography data (e.g. collected with LiDAR technology) handling, processing, visualization, and analysis. The Tool Registry is designed to facilitate the high-resolution topography user community's ability to share and discover software relevant to their research.

OpenTopography at 2010 AGU Fall Meeting

Dec 7, 2010

The annual American Geophysical Union fall meeting will run December 13th to 17th, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. OpenTopography will be active at the meeting via our booth in the Exhibit Hall, and through presentations in various scientific sessions:

Paper on Cloud-Based Approach for Gridding LiDAR Data Presented at CloudCom Conference

Dec 1, 2010

OpenTopography team member Sriram Krishnan presented a paper this week at the 2nd annual IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2010) in Indianapolis on LiDAR digital elevation model (DEM) generation using the cloud-based

OpenTopography Part of $4.4 Million Award To Develop a Geographical Information Science Framework

Nov 12, 2010

UCSD Press Release issued November 10th, 2010:

Standard Digital Elevation Model (DEM) System Outage Planned, Fri, Nov. 12th

Nov 11, 2010

OpenTopography will be performing maintenance on servers associated with our standard DEM download system on Friday, November 12th. During this time, DEM downloads will be unavailable. Please check the "LiDAR System Status" box in the left hand menu under the "Data" tab for updated information related to the outage.

OpenTopography & the UCSD Computational Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU)

Oct 26, 2010

The San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, has announced a new and unique volunteer internship program for undergraduate students entitled Computational Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU).

Granite Dells, Arizona Dataset Now Available

Oct 26, 2010

Today, OpenTopography released a relatively small 47 km² (~357 million points) LiDAR dataset covering the Granite Dells, near Prescott, Arizona.

OpenTopography at 2010 GSA Annual Meeting

Oct 21, 2010

The 2010 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting will be held October 31st to November 3rd in Denver, CO. This year, there are a number of sessions related to LiDAR topography data, and OpenTopography team members will be making several presentations:

Query by classification bug corrected

Sep 29, 2010

Today we corrected a significant bug in the OpenTopography point cloud access and processing system that was introduced at the OT 2.2 release two weeks ago. The bug, which we missed in beta testing, also went unreported by users over the past two weeks despite significantly impacting data products generated by OpenTopography.

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